SignWriting List
April 20, 2001
Hello Everyone, and James!
I have not changed any symbols...really!
I know you have mis-understood, so please do not shoot yourself!! smile...
Please tell me which symbol you mean...and I promise I will help you!
I simply have added some symbols, but I have not taken any away - so
you are safe!
Val ;-)
PS. Congratulations on your wonderful work!
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>I can't believe this! We just finished a 188 page collection of stories
>written in Nicaraguan Sign Language and I am making 16 copies in color.
>That comes to 16 hours of non-stop photocopying. I am up to page 185!!! and
>now I find you have changed a symbol.
>
>Oh, I am going to shoot myself.
>
>-- James
>
>Ps to Valerie: I will, naturally, send you an advance copy. This is Volume
>I. Volume II will be more in the nature of history and geography lessons
>(September?) and Volume III will be more stories in general (November?)
>
>
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>>From: Valerie Sutton
>>To: SignWriting List
>>Subject: Re: Flat Hand: 20 Palm Facings
>>Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2001, 6:27 PM
>>
>
>>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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