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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">I'm trying to thing of a time I've used just one without the other. If I am talking about one teams score without the other, then I would just place it midway in neutral space. The only time I do the close/far is when I have two things to talk about. What makes the close/far situation is that we are combining the numbers with other information. "I support this team, you support that one, MY team scored 4, your team scored 5." In English those would be separate utterances, but they can be combined visually in ASL. The same way we set up people in space and then refer to that space instead of saying their name every time, like we have to do in English. The use of space is an additional layer of meaning for this... Does that make sense? An example of layering that I use sometimes is translating the English, "There is a man over there!!" Look at all them words! In ASL it could be MAN signed with one hand and point with the other with a frightened/panicked look on the face. Not sure how I would write that...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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<div class=""><div id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549" class=""><div class="">It happens to the best of us. ;-)<div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549">So I have a question for you. How would you write the same sentence without the ending with 5? There wouldn’t be any movement going outward to end with the 5. It would end with the 4 close to the chest.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549">Conversely, how would you write the sentence if only the other teams score was given, with the 5 farther away?</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549">
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<div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549" dir="ltr">ooops, should have read all my emails before I replied.... :smile:</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"></div>
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On Thursday, April 22, 2021, 01:14:26 PM EDT, Valerie Sutton <<a shape="rect" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549" href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:
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<div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549" id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549"><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">SignWrting List<div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">April 22, 2021</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">Hello Adam, Andre, Cherie, Kacio, Steve, Jonathan and everyone -</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">Thank you for your messages and diagrams about "writing depth”. What wonderful messages you all posted, There are so many ways to write this...</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">And thank you Adam, for the two videos posted yesterday. They helped me a lot ;-)</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">As you know, the Top View can be mixed with the Front View. The Head in Top View establishes the “depth” but the rest of the sign .. the hands, the movements … can be written in the Front View, placed either near or far from the Head & body. It sounds crazy, but this combination of viewpoints seems to be working for readers.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">The Front View also works with the Shoulder Line. It is clear that the second handshape is “far away” because of the Movement Arrow putting it there at the end of the movement. See diagram:</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><span id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549cid:gqRw3lbK3LH6oBsKEkDa" class=""><3 Ways To Write Depth v1.jpg></span></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">And looking at the above diagram I can see other ways to write it too. So there are a variety of choices. For me, the Movement Arrow gives me the depth information, but if you do not want to use an arrow, then the old “sizes” work very well.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">Originally SignWriting was designed to keep the writing ALL Front View, using "size of symbols" to write the depth perspective of “far away”. Smaller symbols represented “far away”.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><span id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549cid:c8LRCE67YXT3e2TywvyI" class=""><part1.708400B8.png></span></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">This would work well with video transcription, such as Amit Moryossef’s amazing software representation of a stick figure on a video:</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><span id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549cid:cLrMYPDN6FFzu1fiGnir" class=""><Amit Moryossef.png></span></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><a shape="rect" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634" href="https://youtu.be/pCKRWSNIaNQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/pCKRWSNIaNQ</a></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">So originally, the general “Movement Writing” system was designed without mixing viewpoints within one sign. </div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">I want to thank Steve Slevinski for his posting about CSS Styling strings and the fact that Steve’s styling strings make it possible in software to change the size of symbols, and thank you Steve, for <a shape="rect" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634" href="https://signbank.org/signmaker.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SignMaker 2017</a> and thank you, Jonathan, for the <a shape="rect" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634" href="https://jonathandduncan.github.io/QuickSignEditor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quick SignEditor</a> programs that are implementing those styling strings right now. I am grateful for your efforts and I hope to use the size differences now to write a technical document about these issues.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">I am aware of the point, that Rich Text is great for individual documents or signs that can be captured in graphics so the information is not lost, but in an actual symbolset, the information of “small” vs “large” would be lost if it is just plain text.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">Nonetheless, I am glad to know I can access the smaller symbols in the two programs and I plan to use it for some demonstrations.</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">I have more to share later - hope you all can get up from your computers and do some exercise - it is so easy to sit for hours without realizing we need to move too!</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">Have a great day everyone -</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634yqt3022295888" id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634yqtfd50370"><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634">Val ;-)</div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"><br clear="none" class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634"></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634yqt3022295888" id="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549ydpfa6fe943yiv2467436634yqtfd69671"><div class="ydpd56526aayiv9817133549">________________________________________________
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