Sign for Tokyo

[Charles Butler]

The first one's better, as it is unambiguous that they are going away at the same time.  Reading the back and forth arrows, they are definitely going in opposite directions.
 
Charles Butler


Ingvild Roald <iroald at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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" 
>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 Ó hEorpa from Northern Ireland wrote:
>>That’s my sign for Tokyo – 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...
>
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