<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>February 10, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:59 AM, <A href="mailto:CWren@doe.k12.ga.us">CWren@doe.k12.ga.us</A> wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">The trouble with adding classifiers is that you can't really do generic classifiers. The handshape carries meaning, but the motion depends entirely on the unique circumstances you are trying to depict. Like my vehicle swerving (will try to film it this weekend) that is describing that particular instance where I fishtailed on the road. I have swerved or fishtailed other times, but I would use the classifier differently, because the situation was different. </FONT><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">I'm also not clear on the use of the 'tense' symbol to identify classifiers. How and where is that placed? I have read what's in the textbook, but I don't really understand how to use that symbol to show a classifier.</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif"></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I understand your points about placing the classifiers in SignPuddle...it is a hard problem to document them...I just asked Steve if we someday could develop a way to archive Sign-Sentences created in SignText, automatically up on the web in a web directory of Sign-Sentences...and that could be a way to record and archive different variations of classifiers, seeing them in sentence-context? do you agree?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regarding the Tension Symbol used sometimes, when writing classifiers, the Tension symbol is used to show placing something imaginary in space...there is a little umph or feeling of tension when you place it in space...Sometimes it can touch something else too, like showing a house sitting on a hill...the feeling of sitting, has a tense feeling...see the last sign in the attached sentence...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:AC4F6F63-8A00-41B9-AC6B-4CD5C4885F54@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>