[sw-l] Which SignSpelling is best?

[Ingvild Roald]

Me too, I feel more comfortable with the first one -it establishes the
beginning of the sign in an easy way, and then there is a movement with a
shift of orientation.
But I would have to ask Deaf users to make any decission on this.


Ingvild




>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: [sw-l] Which SignSpelling is best?
>Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:11:04 -0700
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>SignWriting List
>April 29, 2005
>
>Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>>I would prefer the first one (although there is this shift in perspective
>>from front view to top view -) I got used to it but do not care if the
>>sign is written the other way.
>
>So all three of us...Stefan, Stuart and Val...agree. I am glad to know
>this, Stefan, because I thought you felt we should not switch viewpoints
>within one sign if it can be avoided...and suddenly I realized that could
>mean a lot of spellings would have to be changed...
>
>Spellings are strange, because our brains memorize one spelling and after
>awhile, even if a more logical one comes along, we still read the original
>spelling faster...this is true for all spoken languages too, I believe...
>
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