finger movements spelling rules

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 3, 2005

> Charles Butler wrote:
>> How does this look following those rules, the hands spin in a  
>> circle while trilling.

Hello Charles -
Thanks for this question. That is a beautiful sign from Brazil, isn't  
it? smile...

There are two different issues here...One is the symbols themselves,  
and the other is...What do we do, when we do not want to write both  
the beginning and ending positions?...

So far, with the rules that I just posted, I was writing both the  
beginning and ending positions of the sign. I am not saying you have  
to do that, it is just a question that keeps coming up over the  
years...what happens when we take one of those hand positions  
away?..and which one do we take away? We know, with the dot-by-dot  
symbols we have to have the open hand, or otherwise we don't know  
which finger is closing first, second or third, so I guess if you are  
going to take one away, you have to take the ending position away,  
which is what you did in this writing...

So we are assuming knowledge of the sign...and that is ok, if it can  
be read by the people who know the sign!

For me, as a foreigner, I would not really know how the sign  
finishes...what handshape does it close into? An S handshape, or an A  
handshape? And are those two ending handshapes relating to each other  
at the end? or are they separated by space? smile...

Would it hurt to write the ending position? Thanks for your  
question!  Val ;-)



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