[sw-l] DIAGONAL PLANE Hands for Detailed Writing

[Charles Butler]

On "mountain" I should have written it with the back of the hands, not the front of the hands (it's confusing, and I was doing it quickly.)  Take a look at this. It's the back of the hand, diagonally pointed upward going up twice to form mountain.

I've included three hands, parallel to the movement directions they portray.



Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org> wrote:
Ah, now this is where things start to get difficult, because it's in a foreign language to me. There's no way I can tell that the hands aren't held strictly in the floor plane - as a BSLer I'd probably red this as "toast"  :)  It's not exavtly the same but it's the nearest sign I could think of.

So perhaps the more detailed kind of writing would also be appropriate for learners' books - not people learning SignWriting, people who already know SignWriting and are using it to learn a foreign language - not just for researchers.

Sandy
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  Sign for mountain.  The hands move diagonally up forward twice.  One could write it with a double-curve up as well, but I think of this as "straight" movement.



Charles Butler


Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote: SignWriting List
March 1st, 2005

On Mar 1, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:
> It's not that I'm a researcher but that the software I'm writing does
> allow
> for the sort of fine control that researchers might need, so I should
> know
> how to do this.

OK. But I want to be sure that teachers of Deaf children understand
that the handshapes on the Diagonal Plane are unnecessary for everyday
writing...this is only for detailed writing....Because for everyday
writing, we already have movement symbols on the Diagonal Plane, and
that is enough to get the Diagonal Plane written...to Review the
Movement Symbols on the Diagonal Plane, start at this web page:

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/arrows/arrow017.html

and it goes for several pages...

or...start here...

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/112%20Straight-Movement.html

and it goes for several pages...

OK. Next message I will show you the hand symbols...

Val ;-)




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