<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi, Valerie and friends of SW-List!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It's about the symbol + (grasp contact). Some people say it is used to indicate permanent contact. I disagree. For example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> <img src="cid:ii_l6n2oqar1" alt="image.png" width="415" height="472"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_l6n2pimp2" alt="image.png" width="294" height="420"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">M<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">apinguari (indigenous legend)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For me the + symbol should be replaced by *, because the hands don't hold the belly,they just stay in contact with it.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What do you think?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Josenilson Mendes</span><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em qua., 10 de ago. de 2022 às 00:23, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>SignWriting List</div><div>August 9, 2022</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Josenilson!</div><div>It is great to read your message. Thank you for writing to the SignWriting List.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, for me at least, I follow Writing Guidelines when writing sign languages.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, these two rules or guidelines mean a lot to me personally. I follow these everytime I write:</div><div><br></div><div>SignSpelling Rule 1: Write the Position of Contact</div><div><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html" target="_blank">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>SignSpelling Rule 2: Every Sign Has A Center</div><div><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html" target="_blank">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and it continues for many pages following on the web…</div><div><br></div><div>These guidelines can also be found at the end of the </div><div><br></div><div>Lessons in SignWriting Textbook</div><div><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>So what specific questions do you have?</div><div><br></div><div><span><img id="gmail-m_-616853744080726849DD8EAEDA-1F29-4F06-8077-3420E491FAEF" src="cid:18285d5128a728370c1"></span><br>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>_______________</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 9, 2022, at 7:30 PM, Josenilson da Silva Mendes <<a href="mailto:jsm88b@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">jsm88b@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br>Hi, SW-List!<br>Here in Brazil, we are in a discussion about whether or not threre are rules for SW.<br><br>This page <a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/" target="_blank">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/</a> has spelling rules or not?<br><br><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Greetings<br></blockquote><br>Josenilson Mendes<br></blockquote><br></div>________________________________________________
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