Belgium: Lessons in Spelling

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 27, 2005

> Kasterlinden Bilinguaal wrote:
> Hello Val, try to beat you to it ;) How about this? The arrow is  
> shorter...is there a way to show the hand does not leave the left  
> one but stays still inside the left hand?....greetings Kathleen

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Hello Kathleen -

Ha! it was fun that you beat me to it! ;-)

Your writing is the first one in the Flemish SignPuddle, and it is  
fine....I also added my second version there too...see attached...

The second version is a different style of writing, based on the way  
we have written the sign for Spring in ASL over many years. The 5- 
Hand is a little easier symbol for people to read, and we show the  
Position of Contact at the end of the sign, with a Grasping-Inbetween  
symbol that shows that the two hands are really holding at the end...

Sometimes a movement can be written several ways..(.just like  
English: the words BE and BEE sound the same, but written differently)



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