<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">April 30, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Rachel -</div><div class="">Thank you for these questions - I will try to answer them bit by bit... regarding question 1... see my answer below your diagram...</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 30, 2019, at 6:36 AM, <a href="mailto:00000018ddb4db4a-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">00000018ddb4db4a-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi everyone two new questions –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Here is a set of symbols:<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ol><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="43B0351B-5ADF-484D-8807-46AFDA4AD368" src="cid:image002.png@01D4FF35.893E2D50" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I interpret the first symbol (S2a900) as: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The right hand curves toward the horizon (viewer). Then the hand curves back toward the signer (writer). In other words, an S-curve. The overall path direction is straight up and down (not sloped toward signer or viewer).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Is this correct?</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>VAL'S ANSWER: </div><div>I believe you understand the visual movement, but the wording is always hard in English. The "Horizon" term means "far away from the chest or body". It is "like looking at a line on the Horizon out in the ocean" and reaching for that Horizon which is "far away". So your description of "viewer" in the first sentence confused me a little. So here is another try to explain it in words:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Looking at your chart 0-0:</div><div>The right hand starts to travel up, parallel to the Front Wall Plane. While it travels up it does an S-Curve. The S-Curve is NOT parallel to the Front Wall Plane. The S-Curve is parallel to the Side Wall Plane. While making the S-Curve, the right hand curves forward toward the Horizon, (hitting the Front Wall) and then it curves the opposite direction back towards the signer's chest. The dot on the curve represents curving back toward the chest. And this occurs while traveling up in general.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>That is a large paragraph for such a lovely movement ;-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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