AW: [sw-l] Sign for Tokyo

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 11, 2005

Add them to the Japanese SignPuddle, and also to the International  
SignPuddle please! Many thanks...Val ;-)

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On Aug 11, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hello Ingvild, - Shane, Midori, Valerie ...
>
> looking at our notes from the Maastricht conference -
> I can tell that we got the information as shown in the attached
> png.
>
> Tokyo - both hands straight up - once ( sun is rising)
> Kyoto - both L- hands straight down -
>
> Stefan ;-))
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw- 
> l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von midori at a.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. August 2005 18:46
> An: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Betreff: Re: [sw-l] Sign for Tokyo
>
> Hello, Ingvild,
>
> I'm Masahiko's colleague, Midori.
>
> I think the sign for east is one straight up movement, both hands  
> at the same time. But for Tokyo, the movement should be repeated,  
> namely, two straight up movement. Should we write it with three  
> arrows, with the middle one reverse direction, or two parallel  
> arrows in the same direction?
>
> Sorry for misspelling your name in the previous mail.
>
> Midori
>
>
> --- sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu ---
>
>
>
>> Hm...
>>
>> I read the right sign (the one from Northern Ireland) as the two  
>> hands doing
>> oposite movements (left hand going diagonally up while right hand  
>> is is
>> going diagoanlly down, and vice versa)
>>
>>
>> Ingvild
>>
>> ps: the sign we were shown in Maastricht had one straight up  
>> movement, both
>> hands at the same time
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>>> Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] Sign for Tokyo
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:57:30 -0700
>>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> August 11, 2005
>>>
>>>
>>>> Shane テ・hEorpa from Northern Ireland wrote:
>>>> That窶冱 my sign for Tokyo 窶・a bit of a deviation u may  
>>>> notice!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Shane and Midori!
>>> THANK YOU, Shane, for posting some SignWriting. You have made me  
>>> very  very
>>> happy!
>>>
>>> And now I want to ask you both...Which sign is more accurate? The  
>>> one  on
>>> the left, is writing movement twice up-diagonally, but the   
>>> emphasis is on
>>> the up-up. The sign on the right is writing the same  movement,  
>>> but instead
>>> the emphasis is even...up-down-up...
>>>
>>> Left sign...up-up
>>> Right sign...up-down-up
>>>
>>> A different feeling to the movement...I would actually pronounce   
>>> (produce)
>>> them differently...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ・シ
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> <Tokyo.png>
> <Kyoto.png>
>