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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Jul 10, 2000 1:20 am Subject: Space divided into quarters does not mean a quarter of a rotation! | |
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At 1:21 AM +0200 7/10/00, Stefan Woehrmann wrote: >One thing that made me curious when I studied your last attachment very >carefully is - that you are talking about quarters . > >In my phantasy it depends on the movement - how far do I rotate - let the >thumb - pencil or baby-finger-pencil paint from the beginning of the >movement till it ends - SignWriting List July 9, 2000 Hi everyone and Stefan - I was not talking about a quarter of a rotation! Nothing to do with that at all ;-) I was talking about space....I made space "a circle". I then divided the circle up into four quarters, and each symbol represents the quarter of the circle where the movement is "taking place" - but it does not mean that a quarter of a rotation necessarily completed itself - you could do an eighth of a rotation and still be "located in the path" of a certain quarter-area of the circle... All of our curved arrows and rotations take a circle and divide the circle into quarters - that is a theme of the entire writing system - the curves and rotation symbols are describing what part of space the movement is "relating to"....not whether the rotation or curve completes itself within that quarter in space.... The palm facing gives exact rotation details, if they REALLY are necessary to understand a sign...But I would like to caution you on one thing....you will not always need a finishing position, when native signers are reading documents! They know the finishing position and could care less about such exacting details.... Deaf children will understand the sign with or without the picky details... So please notice that each circle divides space into four quarters in these lessons online: Question 0022: Curved Arrows Front Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less011.html Question 0023: Circles Front Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less011.html Question 0024: Rotation Front Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less011.html Question 0025: Curved Arrows Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less012.html Question 0026: Circles Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less012.html Question 0027: Rotation Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less012.html Question 0028: Curved Arrows Side Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less013.html Question 0029: Circles Side Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less013.html Question 0030: Rotation Side Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less013.html Question 0031: Rotation Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less014.html Question 0032: Rotation Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less014.html Question 0033: Rotation Front Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less014.html |
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