<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>February 6, 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 February 4, 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="97" width="144" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="7bd9a555-d1fb-48e8-a286-a7dbd3bae850" src="cid:D14F8D9B-6AA7-4DA6-9E7D-44086BA1E030"></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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">is based on this illustration on page 359 of Novo Diet-Libras…(WONDERFUL BOOK! ;-)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><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; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><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; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><img height="118" width="274" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="ef0f7188-ca95-420d-9516-27d542255541" src="cid:81E4856E-5CA1-4639-8784-AF7CA64F5906"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></font></div></span></font></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; ">Look at the second section of this sign. It should be written differently than the writing above. </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; ">Here are three possible ways to write the second section of the sign, based on SignSpelling Guidelines:</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; "><img height="218" width="502" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="a8868bcc-b11b-4c67-a85d-e1c6c3e218ab" src="cid:EE976890-9F64-47BA-B47F-E469C5CDA033"></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; min-height: 22px; ">Always write the Position of Contact, which is at the end of this movement. You can write the sign starting with the C hand, or starting with an open-5 hand, or don't bother writing the first position, but just show there is a single closing of the fingers into the Fist, which is the Position of Contact. This movement is common to many sign languages. In ASL, it means to condense, abbreviate or summarize.</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; "><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192">SignSpelling Guidelines</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less100.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less100.html</a></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#205192">SignSpelling Guideline 1:</font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html"></a>Always write the Position of Contact.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(32, 81, 146); ">SignSpelling Guideline 4:</span><br></b>
Finger Movement Symbols are usually written on the
finishing handshape that is the result of the end of the finger
movement.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><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.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 146, 0); font-size: 14px; ">...continued next message....</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 146, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 146, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 146, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div></div></div></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></span></font></div></span></span></font></div></div><br><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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