<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">August 9, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Josenilson!</div><div class="">It is great to read your message. Thank you for writing to the SignWriting List.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, for me at least, I follow Writing Guidelines when writing sign languages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example, these two rules or guidelines mean a lot to me personally. I follow these everytime I write:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignSpelling Rule 1: Write the Position of Contact</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignSpelling Rule 2: Every Sign Has A Center</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and it continues for many pages following on the web…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These guidelines can also be found at the end of the </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lessons in SignWriting Textbook</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had long discussions early in 2022 about guidelines for writing movement arrows and I had planned to write up a report about our decisions that we made together and then I got so busy I didn't get to it. Maybe now is the time to get back into more discussions?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So what specific questions do you have?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span><img apple-inline="yes" id="DD8EAEDA-1F29-4F06-8077-3420E491FAEF" src="cid:C0683B41-83AC-431B-A15C-E695CE43115D" class=""></span><br class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">_______________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Aug 9, 2022, at 7:30 PM, Josenilson da Silva Mendes <<a href="mailto:jsm88b@GMAIL.COM" class="">jsm88b@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi, SW-List!<br class="">Here in Brazil, we are in a discussion about whether or not threre are rules for SW.<br class=""><br class="">This page <a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/</a> has spelling rules or not?<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Greetings<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Josenilson Mendes<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></body></html>________________________________________________

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