<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="">August 14, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi Adam -</div><div class="">I love Basics. I agree - let's go back to the Basics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both of your examples below are "Same Time".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Neither of the signs have Alternating arrows.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alternating requires at least two movements in opposite directions produced by the SAME hand. Usually short quick movements back and forth, but even longer movements back and forth can be alternating just as long as they are done by the same hand, one directly after the other.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The signs you show have one direction per hand, so they are not alternating.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 14, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Adam Frost <<a href="mailto:icemandeaf@GMAIL.COM" class="">icemandeaf@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, I suspect we are talking apples and oranges, which is probably partly due to me switching back and forth between full SignWriting and making a shortened form for handwriting. ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think I will pull it back a little because it seems I don’t understand the “same time alternating” as well as I thought. I could get into why I thought that, but I think it might be better if we get back to basics and then see where the thought paths diverge.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let's consider these two writings. (This is how I would normally write them for publication. Ha!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="B1B0763E-7ADF-469E-918B-3C21577C117F" src="cid:D5D7F6CC-18D0-4AC6-9B7F-5204462AA071@home" class=""> <img apple-inline="yes" id="64B0C868-198E-490C-AFDF-AB570E1367F3" src="cid:8C8AB42D-4418-41BF-9FC8-8F4F4F5C0DB2@home" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I were to add the timing symbols, I would add the “Same Time” symbol to the first writing. What about the second writing? Which timing symbol would be correctly used?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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