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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Jun 16, 2000 1:31 pm Subject: Re: Irish Blessing "peace" | ||||||||
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>When I read this first, I had no trouble with this sign. I saw it as the >same sign I use for "quiet, silence,..." But then I read >stefan's question and I went back and tried to decipher it >phonologically, and now it seems confusing. >I didn't get the idea that the >hands exchanged places; SignWriting List June 16, 2000 Yes. Stefan is in the enviable position of not knowing ASL. He is lucky, because he cannot make any assumptions. If the writing isn't exact, it is hard for him to read it, because it is not based on a prior knowledge of the sign. Meanwhile, Joe knows some ASL and knows the sign for "peace" in ASL. Charles wrote the sign for "peace", but he changed it slightly. Joe didn't notice the change, because he was "assuming knowledge". Those are the issues of spelling in all languages. No spelling system is perfect. If I were to write the sign that Charles described, I would have written it this way (see attached file). The rotation of the hands is written with a general arrowhead - neither left nor right. The general arrowhead means that BOTH the hands are moving simultaneouly in the direction of the arrow.....Can you read this? | ||||||||
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