<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<BR><DIV>February 11, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cherie from Georgia School for the Deaf wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">This is almost all classifiers... Can you read it? Did I make any spelling mistakes this time? ::grin:: It would translate roughly as "I hate it when the cat twines between my legs and makes me trip."</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>Hello Cherie and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>What a fabulous SignSentence...THANK YOU for taking the time to write sentences and to post them to the SignWriting List! This is really exciting ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any spelling mistakes are very minor. I hope you don't mind that I discuss the writing of the signs...It is an excellent exercise for all of us, to study writing sentences...and everyone makes mistakes ...I know I do...Your sentences are valuable for research to learn where things are hard and where they are easy -</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I noticed three small things...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>First...The eyegaze. It is written looking back-diagonal right now, but I wonder if you want it to look down-diagonal? If so, then the eyegaze should be double-stemmed arrows...The single-stemmed arrows, as you know, show eyegaze forward or side or back...movement parallel to the floor...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Second, the sign for falling down...does the left hand really end with the fingers pointing toward the chest? If so that is perfect!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Third...I wonder, in the sign for falling down, if you want the left hand's fingers in-between the right hand's fingers? if so, then that would be a Brush-Between symbol, which you can find next to the Brush symbol...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any weight shifting in this sentence? There is none written, so I assume not...I wonder if there isn't a brief pause between the second and third sign...You say: Me standing here...pause? that would be the comma punctuation mark...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think this is super! Can others on the List read this sentence? Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:84AB2391-D581-4A72-8C7F-831DDDCB721E@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>