<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I think that this is a situation where the "citation" form is right handed, but one may have left-handed signers switching dominant hands. </DIV>
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<DIV>Long-term, we need to have a function that will switch everything from "right-hand dominant" to "left-hand dominant" and "expressive" to "receptive" but it currently does not exist.</DIV>
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<DIV>Every class I have ever taught in Sign Writing has had at least one left-handed signer, so that we teach "write what you see on your own hands". Having left-handed and right-handed students teaches everyone that the system is universal, not one hand dominant over the other in writing. </DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Charles Butler <chazzer3332000@YAHOO.COM><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, February 7, 2011 1:34:05 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: QUESTION: Can we write left-handed signing?<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>The dark arrow is for the right hand, the white arrow is for the left hand. If you write your language left-hand dominant, that is fine, but left and right don't change. The arrows are for which hand is used, not which is dominant. </DIV>
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<DIV>Fingers follow the hand. The whole system is built for both hands.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Valerie Sutton <sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, February 7, 2011 1:09:21 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> QUESTION: Can we write left-handed signing?<BR></FONT><BR>SignWriting List<BR>February 7, 2011<BR><BR>QUESTION:<BR><BR>On Feb 2, 2011:<BR>> Hello!<BR>> There is one thing I was wondering about ; I « sign » with my left hand, and the the writing is made for right handed persons. I haven't read enough to know if the inversion in writing can pose a problem in the understanding. As a left handed person I would, for example,automatically inverse the place of the dark side on the drawing on the hand « flat » : I would put It on the left side rather than on the right side. I would also, on the drawing of the hand with finger, put
the stick representing the thumb on the right side. It trouble me much when I »m trynig to learn. Is the inversion accepted?<BR>> I go on descovering the Sign Writing. I will surely rewrite. Have an nice day!<BR><BR>---------<BR><BR>ANSWER:<BR><BR>Thank you for this message and your question....<BR><BR>Go right ahead and write left-handed signing - no problem!<BR><BR>It is accepted to write either way.<BR><BR>Writing left-handed signing or right-handed signing - BOTH can be written in SignWriting and there is no problem reading it...<BR><BR>Just as there is no problem in real life...when you look at a left-handed signer or a right-handed signer - we can all understand each other, whether we are signing to each other, or reading it in SignWriting...<BR><BR>In our formal SignWriting documents, we choose to write right-handed signing, because most signers are right handed, so that is our standard way of publishing...but we do have some publications
written in left handed signing -<BR><BR>Right now you notice this more, because you are new to SignWriting, but later it will become less important until you get used to reading it either way -<BR><BR>I have more to tell you about left-handed and right-handed signing next message...<BR><BR><BR><BR>Val ;-)<BR><BR>Valerie Sutton<BR>SignWriting List moderator<BR><A href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</A><BR><BR>Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<BR><A href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacc.edu" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@listserv.valenciacc.edu</A><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
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