<div dir="ltr">Hi Val,<br><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your detailed and helpful reply. </div><div><br></div><div>Oftentimes, a spelling in any written language is condensed for the sake of convenience, space, and technological constraints. I am so eager to teach and share SignWriting to others. If anyone comes up with the spelling like I did here for "January", I certainly can pass along your explanation. </div><div><br></div><div>I have included the entries for "January" (in ASL) from SignPuddle 2.0 here for others to observe. (See below.)</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_l1i68wt51" alt="Screen Shot 2022-04-02 at 2.10.58 PM.png" width="91" height="71" style="margin-right: 0px;">,<br></div><div>AnnaGrace</div><div><br></div><img src="cid:ii_l1i63tlt0" alt="Screen Shot 2022-04-02 at 2.05.39 PM.png" width="284" height="268" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 6:45 PM Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">SignWriting List<br>
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Hello AnnaGrace,<br>
Thank you for writing some fingerspelling. Of course, SignWriting can be used to write any style or dialect of signing and it really is up to the writer what one chooses to write, but because we were dealing with computer programs that standardized a way to type fingerspelling, we had to make a choice as to what style of signing we wish to use for the computer standard.<br>
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So when it comes to January, how would I write it? I would go to SignPuddle 2. I would choose the Fingerspeller Program icon on the left of the screen.<br>
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I would type in the letters JAN and it would give me a version from left to right and a version going vertically down and then I can save the sign as an actual sign in the dictionary. Fingerspeller is a good little program. I also loved the old SignWriter DOS fingerspelling keyboards. I have attached the diagrams. And you will notice that the signing style is a little bit different than yours and that is ok. The J is one that we chose years ago for computers, so it became our “standardized” J. And all the fingerspelling faces out towards the reader…so even if physically the A might be white palmed briefly while moving through the letters, the end goal is to show the reader the letters facing them - we are looking at our own hands and most fingerspelling, except H and G are "back of hand view" (black).<br>
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> On Apr 1, 2022, at 10:35 AM, Ms. AnnaGrace <<a href="mailto:msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I filmed myself signing in ASL the letters I and J. I also signed "January" in ASL. I put the signwriting spelling next to them. (Please see the attached film.) <br>
> Could you please tell me whether the spellings are correct? If not, please give me the alternative spellings. <br>
> Looks like a good review or practice on the arrows!<br>
> Thanks so much for watching, and I look forward to your feedback!<br>
> ~ AnnaGrace<br>
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