<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Linguistically, ASL uses fingerspelling a lot for proper names, but more often it uses "name signs" at the beginning of a narrative and establishes them early. See this narrative on Lauren Clerc which I transcribed. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Here is an article on Lauren Clerc with the fingerspelling first and then the name sign introduced. I have not seen an "underline" in orthography to set that apart as I would not know how to
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line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div> </div><div class="" style="">Charles Butler<br class="" style="">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com<br class="" style="">240-764-5748<br class="" style="">Clear writing moves business forward.</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <hr size="1" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Madson Barreto <barretobh@GMAIL.COM><br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU <br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight:
bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:16 AM<br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> Do you use Underline for proper names?<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""><div id="yiv7537030476" class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">Hi Valerie and everyone</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">I just read a Joe Martin's paper and he said about the in Nicaraguan Sign Language that around 1998 has a orthographic rule that said to underline proper names for differ of common names/ simple names.</div>
<div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">I've searched the SW-List archives and I found a 2005' discussion about it.<br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">So, much time has passed...</div><div class="" style="">My question is: this role is currently using in some Sign Language?</div>
<div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">We believe it would be interesting for differ Sign Names (proper names in Sign Languages) of common signs. In spokes writings we use upper case, but in SignWriting?</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div>
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<br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">What you thinking and use about?<br class="" style=""></div><br clear="all" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Best reagards,<br class="" style=""><div style="font-size:medium;" class=""><font class="" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="" style=""><br class="" style="">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="" style=""><font class="" style=""><b class="" style="">Madson and Raquel Barreto <br class="" style=""></b><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></font></font></font></div></div>
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