printed form and signwritten form

[Adam Frost]

Here it is. :-)

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

Adam
On Dec 15, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:

> Hi Val and everyone,
>
>     No,  I will try to look for finding a chart (your name in  
> English, not SW).  If I find it,  I will fax it to you.
>
>     Hand waving
>
>     André
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Valerie Sutton
> To: SignWriting List
> Cc: Gagnon et Thibeault
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] printed form and signwritten form
>
> 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
>
> <Picture 3.png>
>
>
>
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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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