<div>Because the hands are the same shape, and doing a straight line, I'd tend to write it with a combined arrow. If they moved around (like butterflies in the stomach), I'd have to do something different (and hard to write) (smile).</div> <div> </div> <div>Charles<BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>March 9, 2006<BR><BR>On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Charles Butler wrote:<BR>> Just for my feedback on this issue, I've been using the "joint <BR>> arrow" for parallel paths moving in the same direction for years. <BR>> It makes a much faster way to write "long and winding path" and I <BR>> think, for me, it goes with the "feel" of the sign. If it feels <BR>> like two hands moving separately, like "two people walking side by <BR>> side" then it gets two arrows. Mostly, I'd write it for st!
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<BR>> out, or any forward/back arrows, but not for up and down. It's <BR>> parallel and simultaneous motion with the same handshapes on both <BR>> hands, or different if the two handshapes are holding on to each <BR>> other, for me.<BR>> That's my personal style.<BR>> Charles Butler<BR><BR>Hello Everyone, Philippe and Charles!<BR>Thank you for informing me, Charles. I can see that this probably <BR>will become official in time, that SAME PATH and PARALLEL PATH will <BR>both be under the General Arrow definition...but we need to pin some <BR>things down first before we make that leap officially...<BR><BR>For example, you said above that you would not use it for up and <BR>down...does this mean that you would write the sign for DEPRESSION <BR>with two arrows?<BR><BR>Philippe wants to use one for that sign...see attached...<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>