[sw-l] Addition to BSLtext Site

[nemery at U.WASHINGTON.EDU]

oh, I like the repetition of the skywhales as three signs - it's easier to picture them drifting /
swimming like a pod.  Yeah, maybe just more spacing.  And by the second reading it is clear.

Nancy


On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Sandy Fleming wrote:

> Hi Nancy and list!
>
> Yes, I was wondering about that, also how to make the sea low without
> confusion. I was hoping that reading the direction of eyegaze would help to
> clarify, though I agree that this may not be obvious on a first reading. I
> would have been even happier to sign the "three skywhales" as a single sign,
> like a plural, but this doesn't seem possible.
>
> Suggestions, anyone? Maybe I just need to spread things out a bit!
>
> Sandy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of
>> nemery at u.washington.edu
>> Sent: 28 November 2004 17:03
>> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] Addition to BSLtext Site
>>
>>
>> hi Sandy,
>>
>> what a lovely poem!  And what a nice sky-blue layout!  I don't
>> know BSL, but I have one question
>> or comment about the layout.  Are the whales being signed in the
>> physical space above the
>> signer's head?  That is, is the signer looking overhead at his or
>> her hands while signing?  If so
>> that's a little unclear at first reading due to the close spacing
>> between each sign written
>> vertically. (Heads can be optional, so in the middle column the
>> heads look like they could go
>> with the hands below, until you get to the last head.)  I think
>> it's lovely with the hands overhead
>> - maybe just needs some way to separate each hands-with-head combination.
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Sandy Fleming wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> There's a new poem on the BSLtext site:
>>> http://www.bsltext.org/poems/skywhales.asp
>>>
>>> Any comments or criticism (of my signwriting, not of the
>> author's work!) are
>>> welcome.
>>>
>>> Sandy
>>>
>>>
>>>
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