Happy Fourth!

[SignWriting]

Yes...I agree...the simpler the better for the majority of  
documents...I read Adam's original writing fine, and did not feel the  
need for the rotation symbols, but others did, so you can see people  
are varied...

The ISWA 2008 symbolset is a vast, and varied symbolset that offers  
all kinds of levels of simplicity and detail, depending on the writer.

It is my job just to point out all the symbols so people can make  
their own choices...But just because the symbols are there, does not  
require people to use them all...The ISWA 2008 is a useful symbolset  
because you can use about 1/4 or it, and still write your language,  
but when you come across a very complex sign, it usually has the  
symbol for that one rare case etc...

I want to thank Ingvild and Charles for pointing out that the rotation  
was not being written in Adam's original writing, because that brought  
up the important topic of how simple, or how complex we need to  
write...Based on what we see, both simple and detailed ways of writing  
are correct, because we cannot write ALL that we see, only some of  
what we see, and that is where the individual writer has to make  
decisions...

For me, the simple writing of FREE or FREEDOM has become an  
"understood standard"...and the rotation is assumed..

Val ;-)

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On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Adam Frost wrote:

> :-D That is the reason I went with it originally since I had  
> forgotten about the combined arrows.
>
> Adam
>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>
>> It is interesting that I understood Adams first spellings of "Happy  
>> Fourth"
>> just as what they should express - so intuitively I turned the hand  
>> around
>> when they moved outward to the side ... same with KJ's spelling...
>>
>> Stefan  ;-)
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