Thank you. :-)<br><br>Adam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Valerie Sutton</b> <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@mac.com</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;">
Yes, that is correct ;-)<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br>On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Adam Frost wrote:<br><br>> I was wondering about those symbols. So the ones on the noes means<br>> static while the ones above the head means that it moves to the tilt?
<br>><br>> Adam<br>><br>> On 7/6/07, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@mac.com</a>> wrote: SignWriting<br>> List<br>> July 6, 2007<br>><br>> On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
<br>> > I have a question about head movements. I know that the arrows on<br>> > top of the head means that the head moves as if the nose is drawing<br>> > the arrow. The way that Stefan taught me a while ago is that the
<br>> > double stem move the head to look side to side, up and down, while<br>> > the single arrows move the head as if doing an Egyptian dance side<br>> > to side, and forward and back without moving the face from looking
<br>> > forward. How do you write it if the head is tilting side to side?<br>> > Adam<br>><br>> Hello Adam ;-)<br>> Thanks for this question and Stefan of course taught you correctly!<br>><br>> The Head Movement with the double-stemmed arrows shows the direction
<br>> of the nose moving.<br>><br>> The Head Movement with the single-stemmed arrows shows the neck<br>> projecting the head in that direction, like forward, or side to side<br>> in Egyptian dancing. We do use the single lined arrow for Head
<br>> Movements in writing ASL for questions...the head is projected<br>> forward and that takes a single-stemmed arrow...<br>><br>> One way to show a tilt of the head is this way, which really means<br>> that the nose is directed up in the direction of the arrow. So in
<br>> this example the nose is looking up toward the upper left corner,<br>> which automatically tilts the head a little back and side-left:<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Another way to show a Head Tilt, is with the position of the Tilting
<br>> Nose. This is an exact side tilt. The nose is straight forward. The<br>> movement is from the neck.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> and a third way is Tilting Head Movement symbols, showing the movment
<br>> of one Tilt, two tilts in the same direction, three tilts in the same<br>> direction, and tilts back and forth...<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>