Handwriting in vertical columns...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 19, 2003

Dear SW List:
It appears that I have a minor form of walking-pneumonia. I am fine, 
but I will be getting some bed-rest now for a couple of weeks...I hope 
to be back on the List in November...Meanwhile, a close friend who used 
SignWriting in the 1980's is suddenly sending me volumes of 
handwriting...and in this message she mentions the vertical column 
issue, which was a big change for all those who wrote SignWriting in 
the 1980's, but has proved to be a very necessary change. I think you 
described it very well Charles...and Nana, I mailed you your CD last 
week...

So now I am really off the List - ha! It is hard to break old habits - 
I love talking with all of you!....Val ;-)

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A message from a friend, with a handwriting sample:

Hi Valerie,
 
I found the SignWriting list; that was fun!
 
Here's another one. Can you "see" the ASL? Especially the last part. 
Matthew helped me with the scanner because it was cutting off parts of 
the page.
 
I enjoy writing vertically so much more! And it's funny, I knew about 
it for years and resisted it. How wrong I was! :c)


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