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SignNet-MCT-PUCRS Date: Fri Apr 20, 2001 5:57 pm Subject: Re: Flat Hand: 20 Palm Facings | ||||||||
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Hello Valerie, Being an OLD user of the receptive system, I think this use of an old symbol is perfect. It adds no new palm divisions, but allows diagonal picturing of the hand. If one uses this for either projective or receptive writing, it only requires adding it back into the program once instead of having to add multiple handshapes and shadings for people to memorize. This is perfect. Charles Butler -----Mensagem original----- De: Valerie Sutton Para: Data: Sexta-feira, 20 de Abril de 2001 04:38 Assunto: Re: Flat Hand: 20 Palm Facings >SignWriting List >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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