[sw-l] Re: AUSTRALIA Sign for Australia - black line etc

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 1, 2005

Hello Everyone!
To delete signs, you need to become an editor. Sooo...I just invited  
you to become an Editor. You will receive an email message with a  
link. Click on the link to establish your password. Once you have a  
password, you can delete signs...

Whenever you want to change the dictionary, click on the Dictionary  
Editors icon. Login with your password at the bottom of the screen  
and then start editing!

If you have any problems, just write again -

Val ;-)

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On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Antony Daamen wrote:

> HI val, stefan and others!
>
> Thank you for your many answers.
>
> Stefan I sign Australia your way, up-down-forward, but if I want to  
> emphasize or other reason I also make a full circle with my hands  
> before I let go of my middle finger as I go down with my hand....  
> does that make sense?
>
> Lucina the black line it "the body" of the signer as seen from the  
> top.
> Stefan I notice that you draw  the sign from the top? why that way?  
> will readers of the sign realise it is from the top? Later I will  
> practice more.
>
> so the way I show the sign is ok? I have the feeling I show my  
> hands for a start in a unnatural way. Like sideways in front of my  
> chest. then I wasnt't sure of the arrows.  The hands don't go  
> diagonal-forward, but 90 degrees from the chest, paralell from one  
> another.
>
> Nevermind, my first try! how do I delete signs?  I made two signs  
> for Australia, and want one to be removed.
>
> next I will have another go at "how-are-you"! Then again I better  
> practice with just one handshape signs first....
>
> Antony
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Valerie Sutton
> Date: 06/02/05 03:28:25
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: [sw-l] AUSTRALIA Sign for Australia
>
> SignWriting List
> June 1, 2005
>
> Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> > thanks for this lesson -
>
> Ha! It was not a lesson. I just wrote the sign that Antony showed us
> on this web site:
>
> http://www.auslan.org.au/index.cfm?
>
> Go there and search for the sign Australia. The sign on that video
> does a circle, and then a flick down. I personally do not know the
> sign. I was only trying to write what I saw on the video clip...I can
> imagine there could be many ways to write the exact same sign...
>
>
> > I looked at my dictionary - to compare my spelling -
>
> I bet you have a different sign!
>
> >
> > I did not look at the video - so it might not go along with that -
> > On the other hand I saw deaf people signing "Australia"  here in
> > Germany
> > with kind of up - forward - down movement -
> >  I am curious - and anxious to improve my reading skills -
>
> There is nothing to be anxious about. We have to make sure that we
> are looking at the same sign first! So go to the web page above, and
> look at their video...
>
>
>
> >
> > I interpret your spelling as if you do a "complete" circle movement
> > first
> > and afterwards move your hands down with flicking open the hand -
>
> That is exactly what i saw on the video, but maybe you see the video
> differently?...take a look and then write again...
>
>
> >
> >
> > I think that this doubled information (flick - symbol) and
> > presentation of
> > the handshape in the final position is ok - but not necessary -
>
> I don't know their sign...I was just writing what I thought I saw...
>
> >
> >
> > Especially at school and for documents written for children I got
> > used to
> > our "rule" (smile) just write as few symbols as are really
> > necessary...
> >
> > Attached you find a gif with variations on my spellings - do you
> > agree with
> > that too ?
>
> If you sign it differently then I am sure you are writing it
> correctly for the way you sign it! smile...
>
> On the video he started with 8 handshapes parallel to the floor...
>
>
>
>
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