<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks, I was thinking back to "VERY" old days and will correct the sign.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> SignWriting <signwriting@mac.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SignWriting List <sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, November 16, 2009 11:15:19 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: AW: AW: [sw-l] Understanding a sign<br></font><br>
Yes...the plus sign has only one meaning...to grasp or to hold on to something...it is not needed for compounds because one can see easily that it is not two signs, but one compound sign....<br><br>And this has nothing to do with writing vertically or horizontally...no matter which direction you write it is easy to see a compound sign from two separate signs..<br><br>For example, take a look at DAUGHTER in ASL...<br><br><br><br><br><br>Even if the compound sign does not have a connecting arrow between the two parts of the sign, we can still see the difference between a compound sign and two separate signs without the need for an added symbol to connect them...it has to do with how you space the compound...the two parts of a compound sign are closer to each other...<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br>------------<br><br><br><br>On Nov 16, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:<br><br>> Hi Charles,<br>> <br>> I do not use the cross symbol for any other
reason but to indicate a grasp contact. I prefer compounds written on one level. (But that may be a tribute to my horizontal writing most of the time. We will see whether that changes ...)<br>> <br>> <br>> Stefan ;-)<br><br></div></div>
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