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I just had a student ask me how to write a repeat motion last Friday. How timely. Is there any additional symbology that means to repeat motion that might help clarify?<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>> From: signwriting@mac.com<BR>> To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<BR>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] spelling repeated movement<BR>> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:45:17 -0700<BR>> <BR>> SignWriting List<BR>> March 29, 2009<BR>> <BR>> Hello Stefan! and everyone...<BR>> Thank you for this message, and wow! it is so impressive to see how <BR>> many signs you have added to the German SignPuddle Dictionary:<BR>> <BR>> German Sign Language Dictionary in SignPuddle<BR>> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=8&sgn=53<BR>> <BR>> I see there are 8510 entries in your dictionary! You have been working <BR>> hard! Congratulations...<BR>> <BR>> Your question is a good one and has actually been discussed before <BR>> here on the List. Years ago...back in the 1980's, we tried this idea <BR>> of the repeated arrowheads and writing that way is fine and I love <BR>> it...but...people did not always read it the way I expected...so let <BR>> me try to explain how some people would do that motion...<BR>> <BR>> Instead of going back to the beginning of the first arrow three times, <BR>> they would do the first movement, and then they would move a tiny bit <BR>> more forward the second time, and a tiny bit more forward again the <BR>> third time...They would never return to the beginning position each <BR>> time...I was disappointed myself to see how that was read...so I <BR>> learned something from that...the three arrowheads have to become like <BR>> "one symbol" literally written on top of each other like this...see my <BR>> example attached...I put this in your German SignPuddle dictionary <BR>> under "test Val"...which you are welcome to delete! here it is:<BR>> <BR>> <BR></body>
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