POLAND... Antarktyda again, plus 10 hand issues...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 9, 2005

Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:
> I see! I thought it depends on the point of view! With signs  
> without the head I used to put "up" arrows (as in the YOU sign,  
> e.g.). I try to take the all rules logically :-). If I put a head  
> to the sign, I start imagining that there is a "person" signing to  
> me, and if the person move forward (toward me :-)), the floor  
> parellel movement arrow is to be pointing down... So now I know I  
> was wrong... thanks... I'll correct it tomorrow as now it's about  
> midnight :-)

Oh my goodness, no! That is a big misunderstanding, although I can  
see why that happened...Expressive is a little weird...It is as if  
you are looking through the back of someone's head and feeling your  
own face doing the facial expressions...

Your idea above would mean that you were changing your writing and  
mixing Receptive and Expressive...but no...if we choose to write in  
the Expressive View, then we always remain in the Expressive view at  
all times within the document.

The American sign for NOT is a very similar sign...but we remain in  
the Expressive view...So forward, in Expressive, is up on the page.  
Back, in the Expressive, is down on the page. And when movement is  
forward, even though you are touching your chin and the arrow seems  
like it would go through the center of the facial circle, you still  
remain Expressive and simply place the arrow over to the side a little..




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