<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>January 5, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Dali -</div><div>Thank you for your questions about Punctuation.</div><div><br></div><div>The brackets are not used for quotation marks. The brackets are called a "Unit Connecting Line". Attached is page 168 on the textbook "Lessons in SignWriting", that explains about the brackets.</div><div><br></div><div>The Unit Connecting LIne used to be used, when we wrote horizontally from left to right. They show "influence" of one symbol, like a Facial Expression, on a whole phrase or sentence…They worked better for horizontal writing. When we write vertically, it is harder to use the Unit Connecting Line and it is not necessary either - so our organization here stopped using the brackets (Unit Connecting Line). But I know the Parkhursts and other linguists do use them and that is fine - They are a part of the Sutton Movement Writing system and are used in DanceWriting too…for more detailed writing and linguistic analysis…but for everyday use, we find it is better not to use them because the reader has to stop reading and look back to see what is influencing what…and it interrupts they flow of reading and is too much information for daily reading -</div><div><br></div><div>See attached diagram…</div><div><br></div><div><img height="718" width="431" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="9b5848f9-6c8e-42f7-b99e-175c3ba7c8f9" src="cid:66F49236-07B1-4584-8DEF-8FA926A2C1A7"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 5, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Dali balti wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello brothers and sisters!!!</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I am focusing for the moment on the punctuation, I can understand the whole system except for the "quotation marks" !!!!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Which system is it used now?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">* the brackets?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">* the bent fingers on bars?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">* the parenthesis?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">or any other system???</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thank you all !!!!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Dali</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">:D<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>