[sw-l] thumb diagonal down

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
march 1st, 2005

Sandy -What you diagramed was from the Expressive View...but I believe
I understand your question now...Are you asking..."How do we write
hands pointing straight forward, that are not parallel to the floor,
and are not parallel to my chest, but are instead pointing forward on
the diagonal plane? Is that your question?...

The answer is two-fold...

1. Yes. In Movement Writing, for research or other detailed writing, we
do have a way to write hands on the Diagonal Plane...

2. But for SignWriting for Everyday Use....I choose not to write the
hands parallel to three planes...I only use two planes for everyday
writing....the Wall and the Floor...those are really the Frontal Plane
and the Transverse Plane in technical terms...

So yes, it can be written, but the truth is, you can usually avoid
forcing people to learn a third plane, by realizing that people sign a
tiny bit different and people still understand each other...so you can
be creative and only use the Wall and Floor planes...

Now...if you want to know how to write hands on the Diagonal Plane for
research purposes, I can teach you that...would you like that?  Val ;-)

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On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:

> Val,
>
> Sorry that this wasn't clear.
>
> I'm asking how to write this sign from the expressive viewpoint, so I
> can't
> write it in the expressive viewpoint to show you because I don't know
> how to
> yet!
>
> So what I've done is written it as if seen by a person looking at the
> signer
> from the signer's left - he sees the side of the signer's face and
> body.
> This is why I drew the Lois Griffin nose on  :)
>
> I hope this is clear now?
>
> New diagram attached corrected to show cycling motion!
>
> Sandy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Valerie
>> Sutton
>> Sent: 01 March 2005 15:04
>> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] thumb diagonal down
>>
>>
>> SignWriting LIst
>> March 1st, 2005
>>
>> Hello Sandy and Everyone -
>> I am sorry...I don't understand your question...this diagram does not
>> look like it is Receptive...this looks like a person standing facing
>> the back wall, corner left...So it could be Expressive...Can you
>> explain your question better?...It is pretty readable actually...the
>> person has both hands in front, with the hands pointing forward and
>> both are doing double circles at the same time starting forward on the
>> circle...so what is the question?  Val ;-)
>>
>>
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