I am ambidetrous as well. Most people do notice when I switch either, but that is because there has to be a reason to switch. (Sorry, just because you like it one way isn't a reason. GRIN) Stories often use the ambidextrious rule (that isn't the term, but I like to call it that) because it does what Cherie was saying: "it
<font face="sans-serif" size="2">keeps your hands from getting tangled
when creating a visual description of physical space." There are other reasons as well, but that is a big one.<br><br>Just my two cents.<br><br>Adam<br></font><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Valerie Sutton</b> <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
SignWriting List<br>January 24, 2007<br><br>> Andre wrote:<br>> You use the left strong (active) hand in your story. Look at the<br>> third column (AGAIN): You use the right strong (active) hand and<br>> the left weak (passive) hand. You are supposed to use the left
<br>> strong (active) hand and the right weak (passive) hand. If the<br>> signer uses alternative hands, the Deaf community does not like<br>> them and the signer could be criticized. For example: President<br>
> King Jordan ofGallaudet University used the two alternative hands<br>> which bothered the Deaf community because it was confusing or<br>> uncomfortable to the eyelistener.<br><br><br>That is interesting about the complaint about President King Jordan's
<br>signing...it may be that people truly skilled in ASL noticed that<br>President Jordan was not native to signing and so his "accent" was<br>slightly annoying...He learned to sign later in life and it was his
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second language...<br><br>We had the opposite experience, relating to an ambidextrous signer<br>years ago...(ambidextrous signers are people who are both left and<br>right handed, and who sometimes mix the dominant hands)...
<br><br>One of our DAC members years ago was an ambidextrous signer, born<br>into a three-generations Deaf family, and no one seemed to criticise<br>his switching dominant hands because he was such a skilled<br>signer...smile...I remember asking people about it and they hadn't
<br>even noticed he did it, but I did because I was writing what he<br>said ;-))<br><br>That is an interesting issue...<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br></blockquote></div><br>