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<DIV><SPAN class=910053517-01032005><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Ah,
now this is where things start to get difficult, because it's in a foreign
language to me. There's no way I can tell that the hands aren't held strictly in
the floor plane - as a BSLer I'd probably red this as "toast" :)
It's not exavtly the same but it's the nearest sign I could think
of.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=910053517-01032005><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>So
perhaps the more detailed kind of writing would also be appropriate for
learners' books - not people learning SignWriting, people who already know
SignWriting and are using it to learn a foreign language - not just for
researchers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910053517-01032005><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode"
size=2><BR>Sandy</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Charles
Butler<BR><B>Sent:</B> 01 March 2005 17:11<BR><B>To:</B>
sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sw-l] DIAGONAL PLANE
Hands for Detailed Writing<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P><IMG
src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-US/image.php?build=01-05-011-01-01-01,67,80,01-05-011-01-01-01,97,80,02-04-001-01-01-01,95,44,02-04-001-01-02-01,67,44,02-04-001-01-01-01,94,13,02-04-001-01-02-01,67,15,08-02-001-01-01-01,79,5,&sign=mountain"
border=1 NOSEND="1"> Sign for mountain. The hands move diagonally
up forward twice. One could write it with a double-curve up as well, but
I think of this as "straight" movement.</P>
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<P>Charles Butler</P><BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton
<sutton@signwriting.org></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting
List<BR>March 1st, 2005<BR><BR>On Mar 1, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Sandy Fleming
wrote:<BR>> It's not that I'm a researcher but that the software I'm
writing does <BR>> allow<BR>> for the sort of fine control that
researchers might need, so I should <BR>> know<BR>> how to do
this.<BR><BR>OK. But I want to be sure that teachers of Deaf children
understand <BR>that the handshapes on the Diagonal Plane are unnecessary for
everyday <BR>writing...this is only for detailed writing....Because for
everyday <BR>writing, we already have movement symbols on the Diagonal
Plane, and <BR>that is enough to get the Diagonal Plane written...to Review
the <BR>Movement Symbols on the Diagonal Plane, start at this web
page:<BR><BR>http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/arrows/arrow017.html<BR><BR>and
it goes for several pages...<BR><BR>or...start
here...<BR><BR>http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/112%20Straight-Movement.html<BR><BR>and
it goes for several pages...<BR><BR>OK. Next message I will show you the
hand symbols...<BR><BR>Val
;-)<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>