How many symbols do we use in SignWriting?

[Charles Butler]

I find your example interesting, though I would keep the first hand orientation.  I prefer, unless there is no choice, to write hands that don't have a split in them.  The first hand simply shows them edge on, which is simpler to write.
Charles

--- On Tue, 8/18/09, MARIA AZZOPARDI <maria.azzopardi at um.edu.mt> wrote:

From: MARIA AZZOPARDI <maria.azzopardi at um.edu.mt>
Subject: [sw-l] Re: How many symbols do we use in SignWriting?
To: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>, sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 5:58 PM

Just to illustrate an example of how a sign in LSM, may become standard
see attachment.

The first example has been written by a signer who configured his hands
slightly differently - he just wrote what he saw. However a more frequent
handshape used in Maltese Sign Language was chosen as 'standard' - and
when checked with several Deaf people the second simplified version was
read with no problem whatsoever.

Maria


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