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Hi Val, <br>
Thank for the explanation. It was exactly what I wanted to
know.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Jonathan<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/22/2014 12:45 PM, Valerie Sutton
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<div>Hello Jonathan and Cherie!</div>
<div>I will be happy to answer your question about the Question
Mark next message, but just to make it clear, the link and the
description that Jonathan has pasted here is an excerpt from a
Master’s Degree Thesis by Amy Rosenberg:</div>
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Languages<br>
</font></b>In Support of Adopting an ASL Writing System</center>
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<center>by<b><br>
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Department of Linguistics, 1999</center>
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<div>On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Jonathan Duncan <<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all,<br>
I was wondering about question marks in Signwriting.<br>
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I found this <br>
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<p style="color: rgb(191, 76, 0); font-family: 'Times New
Roman'; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Any word written
in SignWriting has the face, or shoulder bar on top (if
necessary) and the handshape(s) around the face or
shoulder bar. General movements are below the
handshape(s) , but finger movements are indicated by the
fingers of the handshape(s) and head movements are
indicated by the face symbol . A sign dictionary written
in SignWriting looks up lexical items based on the ten
groups of handshapes, then on the movements, also broken
down into groups, then facial expressions, then head and
body positions as demonstrated in Appendix G.<br>
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Two questionable SignWriting practices involve
punctuation and the writing of fingerspelled words.
Punctuation in SignWriting makes use of bars. One
vertical, slightly thick bar placed after a sign
indicates a period. Two thin vertical bars indicate a
pause or comma , and two thin vertical bars slightly
further apart indicate a longer pause or semi-colon .
Two bars next to each other, one thin and the other
thick indicate a question mark . Two thick bars indicate
a colon . Parentheses and quotes look similar to the
punctuation marks used in English. All of the
punctuation marks used in SignWriting can be the same as
those used to write English: . , ; ? : ( ).</p>
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There is no reason for SignWriting to adopt unique
punctuation marks for American Sign Language and it does
not take away from the writing of SignWriting to use
English punctuation marks. Furthermore, when a signer
fingerspells an English word in ASL, SignWriting uses
the appropriate handshape symbol to write the letters in
the English word. This is also possibly a convention
that could be changed. Writing SignWriting by hand, one
would probably write the fingerspelled word in English
letters instead of writing the handshapes for each of
the letters...<font color="#003f7f">*Footnote 15</font>...</p>
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It describes a question mark as "Two bars next to each
other, one thin and the other thick indicate a question
mark" but that description fits the Semi-Colon. And in
the example above it there seems to the semi-colon symbol
after the questions.<br>
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So is the symbol for the semi-colon the same as the
question mark?<br>
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