printed form and signwritten form

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 15, 2008

I found this web page, Andre...is this what you mean?

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/handwriting/lesson101.html





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On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:

> Hi Val and everyone,
>
>     Val,  When I learned a handwriting course, I remember that you  
> compare a chart for your name (Valerie) in English between printing,  
> handprinting and handwriting.  Do you have it?  If yes, this chart  
> helps sw-listers understand them better.
>
>     Hand waving
>
>     André
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Valerie Sutton
> To: SignWriting List
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] printed form and signwritten form
>
> SignWriting List
> December 15, 2008
>
> On Dec 14, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:
>> I'm not sure to understand what you mean by
>> HANDWRITING / HANDPRINTING and the examples I've seen don't really  
>> help me to understand clearly what difference ther is between the 2
>
> Hello Anny -
> I guess I can try to answer your question...
>
> Handwriting is a term, in English, that has several definitions and  
> meanings...
>
> One meaning for "handwriting" is cursive writing...meaning writing  
> that "connects letters" in a quick and more relaxed fashion. That  
> kind of handwriting, here in the US, is taught in schools around  
> third grade...and when I moved to Denmark at age 19, I found out  
> that the handwriting taught in Danish schools did not look like the  
> handwriting taught in my school in the US...so cursive writing does  
> vary from place to place, even when they are trying to write the  
> same symbols, such as a or b or c...I could not read handwritten  
> Danish for years because of this education difference...
>
> But I could read "handprinting" in Denmark...When people took the  
> time to write by hand in very slow and careful perfect letters that  
> looked a lot like type that is printed by machine, then i could read  
> a, b and c and understand the Danish written by hand...so based on  
> that experience, I started using these terms:
>
> Handprinting....Writing by hand that is as perfect as you can,  
> making symbols as close to the printed machine form as  
> possible...writing block letters...sometimes called block printing...
>
> Handwriting...the SignWriting equivalent to a more relaxed "cursive"  
> style of writing...
>
> The problem is that SW Handwriting is not really cursive right  
> now...it might be someday...there was an idea floating around in the  
> late 1980s that maybe our Shorthand stenography system could become  
> the "cursive" form of SW Handwriting, but at the moment SW  
> Handwriting means writing that is not "perfect" but more relaxed...
>
> Does this help at all? And can anyone explain it better? I bet you  
> can...and please do ;-))
>
> and I think the idea of using the stenography as a more cursive  
> writing is a great idea, if we can adapt it to fit the  ISWA  
> symbols...
>
> Val ;-)
>
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