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Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Mon Aug 20, 2001 6:15 pm Subject: Re: Mexican sign for Mexico | ||||||||
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Hi Valerie, Angus and friends ... (Valerie wrote : (...) > Meanwhile, as you know, you are always welcome to add the beginning > and end positions to any sign, if you feel it is necessary. > -- > > Val ;-> well it is just for the sake of getting more security that SW is a powerfull instrument to write with a minimum of misunderstanding - as I mentioned before - the tricky thing about these SW symbols is that almost every "uninformed reader" is willing to "read = perform" almost any given spelling the way the instructor explains to him. From now on this specific sign will be remembered as the "learned sign" (this is my daily experience.) But if you become more and more skilled and you start to read on your own documents that are written from others - there are several problems and chances of misinterpretation (I am not talking about SL and meaning and content but performing the described movement ) if all of us do not pay attention to the use of symbols as they are defined. Sometimes it is just a kind of intuition that makes me wonder about some spellings - Well and in the long run - perhaps we have to distinguish between a spelling for the informed reader (nativ signer of a given SL) and general movement writing , which should or has to be more exact ?? Stefan ;-) | ||||||||
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