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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Apr 20, 2001 7:08 pm Subject: Re: Flat Hand: 20 Palm Facings | |
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SignWriting List April 20, 2001 Hello SW List, and Charles! Many thanks for this message, Charles - Yes...you are one person who really understands since you used these symbols in the mid-1980's...There is absolutly no question that the symbols work..plus people now have more choices - But no one has to change their writing..since we have added symbols, not taken away ;-) Val ;-) ------------------------ >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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