<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>November 30, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Natasha and Everyone!</div><div>You are correct. The second one is not written correctly...I just fixed it in the ASL Dictionary Puddle...Thanks for pointing that out to us! Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><img height="129" width="184" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:6AD38B47-7FFB-46E9-9C5B-401199467462"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 30, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Natasha Escalada-Westland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hello again SW colleagues,<br> <br>I am perplexed again as to how to write an explanation of a classifier, this time to describe a vehicle. In the ASL SignPuddle dictionary I see:<br> <br>A vehicle (presumably making its way along a curvy road) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/image.php?build=01-03-001-01-05-01,120,134,02-09-004-02-01-07,120,89"> and<br> <br><img src="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/image.php?build=02-01-001-01-01-01,86,88,01-05-012-01-04-07,98,97,01-03-001-01-02-02,97,73"> meaning a parked or stopped vehicle.<br> <br>Both dominant hands in the signs shown employ the same location in the sign space and very similar palm orientations as viewed expressively, yet the first uses a symbol that implies floor plane orientation, and the second uses a symbol that implies wall plane orientation.<br> <br>Personally, I feel more comfortable using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/symbol.php?sss=01-03-001-01-05-01&color=000000" atl="01-03-001-01-05-01"> for both signs.<br><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Any thoughts or comments?</div><br><br>Natasha Escalada-Westland, M.Ed. (D/HH), Macromedia Cert.<br><a href="http://www.westlandasl.com/">www.westlandasl.com</a><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>