BRAZIL Sign for Mundo

[Macri Piper]

Hi, Valerie and list members!
Yeah, I'm alive...disappeared but alive.
Unfortunatelly I can't look my mails so often I'd like but, anyway
I'll try to keep in touch.
1st: about the sign "world" (mundo), don't you forget that we have an
upper and a lower hand envolved there, they aren't at the same plan.
The hand that is faced up is lower than the hand is faced down. And we
don't have to begin with and A handshape (may but need not to), usualy
hands are open when the movement begins.
2nd: I'd love to be an editor, but I have the factor time against me :-)
I'll go on with my "tip-off"...
3rd: How have you been, Charles?

A hand waving from Brazil!

Maria Cristina Pires Pereira
Sign Language Interpreter
Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil


On 11/5/05, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Only difficulty in yours valerie is that it doesn't show the hands stacked
> on top of each other, which is really hard to write.  I'm not sure how to do
> that easily.  I prefer the folding circle, as that was one of the first
> "shorthands" we used in Brazil.  My shorthand was very close to yours, and
> was used almost immediately in the school where Marianne was teaching as
> that swirling circle is used in several signs.
>
> mundo_2   mundo_4 (same sign from above with final As)
>
> linda (beautiful)
>   Marianne Stumpf (Nani)   mundo_5 (yours)
>
> I can understand the shorthand of the Parkhursts, but it's not an "obvious"
> swirl to me as the "swirl in a circle" is.  It looks more like "rapid
> closure of hand twice".
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> November 5, 2005
>
> Hello Charles, Antonio Carlos, Cris, Sergio, Augusto and so many
> wonderful List members from Brazil!
>
> Would any of you enjoy being an Editor of the Brazilian SignPuddle
> dictionary online? It is free and simple. I send you an invitation in
> an email message that gives you a link to click on, to establish your
> password. And from then on, you can delete, rename and change any
> sign in the Brazilian SignPuddle...so just write to me if you would
> like to be an Editor.
>
> Charles - regarding the sign for Mundo...I think your different
> choices are all interesting and I do not have an opinion. I have
> added one alternative writing for you, to think about, in the
> Brazilian SignPuddle...
>
> As you know, that finger-by-finger closing symbol with all the
> connected dots is very intricate and detailed. Both the Parkhursts in
> Spain and Stefan in Germany teach another symbol too, that is
> simpler, and takes up less space...but it does not state which finger
> closes or opens first...but it still means one finger at a time...and
> maybe that is enough detail for the sign for Mundo...who knows? smile...
>
> In this example I tried writing wrist circles instead of arms
> circles...I assume you will throw this example out of the Brazilian
> SignPuddle later and that is fine with me! ;-)
>
> Thanks for your question!
>
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