<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>February 4, 2011</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 146, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Note: Signs in these examples are written in Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and are from the book Novo Diet-Libras, Língua de Sinais Brasileira, Volume 1, Universidade de São Paulo; <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/NovoDeitLibras.html">http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/NovoDeitLibras.html</a></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192">---------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192"><br></font></div><div><div><div><div style="color: rgb(32, 81, 146); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#109200" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">...continued from previous email January 30, 2011....</span></font></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(32, 81, 146); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#109200" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(32, 81, 146); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#109200" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(32, 81, 146); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#109200" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(16, 146, 0); ">SEE INSTRUCTION BELOW...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">…this sign in LIBRAS from Brazil…</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><img height="98" width="103" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="f9e621e8-ad72-40c6-a473-a490fbfca097" src="cid:8951159B-7694-43F4-B3E7-07B0005ECAEF"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">…based on this illustration on page 381 of Novo Diet-Libras…</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><img height="118" width="187" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="958f4833-f5a8-44d8-82c4-367275d9a3a6" src="cid:8CD41E23-A56E-4AB1-A88A-BD02875BBAB4"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">…following SignSpelling Guideline 5 (below), does not need a Surface Contact Symbol, since there is no contact. It is clear, without the Surface Symbol, that the right hand is above the left hand:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><img height="168" width="112" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="97f10d4d-27b3-4991-a4ec-108c873492fc" src="cid:91AF0387-58AF-49DD-A803-463B0F897F27"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">There are different ways to interpret the movement in this sign. It could be considered a curve to the mouth, but the writer chose two short straight movements and I bet that is the way it is signed in day to day communication, so let's leave that...Without the Surface Symbol, the sign is simpler to read.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192">SignSpelling Guideline 5:</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html"></a>Surface Symbols are not needed in daily writing....</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><br></div></div></span></font></div></span></span></font></div></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; 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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Val ;-)<br><br>Valerie Sutton<br>SignWriting List moderator<br><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a><br><br>Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<br>sw-l@listserv.valenciacc.edu<br><br>SignWriting List Archives & Home Page<br>http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist<br><br>Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages<br>http://listserv.valenciacc.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1</div></span>
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