<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=""><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">July 16, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Rubens and Steve, Adam, and Lucia -<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Rubens, for this discussion and thank you for posting on the SignWriting List. I enjoyed reading your name signs with the eyelashes and smiles in your attached files.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the past, there have been sign language researchers who studied how names in sign languages are constructed and some of this research points to specific rules that govern how name signs should look. For example, if you go to Google and search for "research on Name Signs in sign languages" you will find many links to information on the subject.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But as Adam says, there are two groups of thinking on this, and the more flexible approach probably is the most reasonable. Freedom to write and express yourself as you wish will probably win - smile - for example - I like smiles too! ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Write as you feel is best, but keep connected here on the SignWriting List for further information as people write and post -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Years ago, when we started writing children's stories in ASL here in our own SignWriting organization, the Deaf author of Goldilocks received criticism for placing smiling faces all over the Goldilocks Level 2 reading book. We were told by this one critic that smiling faces were not linguistically needed in most of the examples. But our author felt that Deaf children will respond to learning to read the children's stories better, if the smiling faces are there, especially for the name sign for Goldilocks ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So thanks for the post, Ruben!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Lucia Garcia <<a href="mailto:luciagarcialibras@GMAIL.COM" class="">luciagarcialibras@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Olá Rubens, achei interessante essa ideia, vou começar a usar cílios para identificar os gêneros<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Muito obrigada pela dica.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lucia Garcia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="">------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Jul 16, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Adam Frost <<a href="mailto:icemandeaf@GMAIL.COM" class="">icemandeaf@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello Rubens,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You aren’t the first to ask about this question, and I am sure you won’t be the last. ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have seen two troupes on this issue. One who feels that name signs should be distinguishable. The other who feels if name signs aren’t distinguishable with live signing, why should they be with the written form. I am personally in the latter troupe; however, I will give you a neutral viewpoint to answer your question of how to distinguish name signs in written form.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When proposing ways to quickly identify name signs in a written form, there have generally been two proposals. The first is by adding a specific symbol to the name sign, such as a line under it as proposed by Stefan Wöhrmann from Germany. Attached here is his own name sign using his line symbol to mean name signs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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