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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Apr 19, 2001 10:27 pm Subject: Re: Flat Hand: 20 Palm Facings | |||||
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April 19, 2001 Sutton Movement Writing is a large writing system. SignWriting does not use ALL of the symbols in the Sutton "SymbolBank". In the early 1980's, we wrote SignWriting from the Receptive Viewpoint. We never wrote handshapes from the Top View. So how did we write the Flat Hand pointing straight forward parallel with the Floor, when we wrote receptively? We used another symbol for the Flat Hand (see the attached diagram). Anyone who knew SignWriting in the 1980's has seen this old Flat Hand symbol, which was taken away from SignWriting when we started using the Expressive Viewpoint. I put it back in our big closet of symbols, the SymbolBank, wondering if it would ever be used again ;-) When the Expressive View was introduced, we also simultaneously introduced the new Top View. The Top View worked so well in the Expressive, that we did not need the "Front View" of the hands projecting forward or back any longer...or so I thought... Then, when Stefan asked for "writing rules" of the Angled Handshapes, I started to realize that the Angle Hand was originally designed, not based on the Flat Hand that we use today, but based on the shorter Flat Hand symbol that we used in the 1980's, that represents "projection". So I am bringing back the old symbol. I believe in the case of the sign for "boat" in German Sign Language, that it is a useful symbol, and probably will be used occasionally. Below are diagrams of the fingers projecting away from the Reader: | |||||
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