[sw-l] Can you read these four signs?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 7, 2005

Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> thanks for the opportunity to discuss spelling issues – I would like 
> to add the following idea – I know that there is no spelling rule like 
> this but my deaf students gave me the advice not to write the two 
> hands in different planes – Stefan ;-)

Thank you, Stefan, for this comment. Different viewpoints within one 
sign do not bother me personally, but if it bothers your Deaf students, 
then we should listen to them.

Let's have some fun! Here are 4 SignSpellings. 4 different ways to 
write the SAME sign for Northern Ireland...Yes...I added 3 more to the 
Northern Ireland SignPuddle.... So we actually have 7 spellings for the 
same sign!

Look at Number 4. The right hands are seen from the Front View, looking 
at the sides of the right hand. The left hands are written from the Top 
View, looking down on them parallel to the floor...The Top View is 
mixed with the Front View in one sign...That is what Stefan 
means...Does that bother you?

And look at Numbers 5, 6 and 7...Those spellings do not mix viewpoints. 
Can you read them? There is something new in one of them...Ask 
questions!


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