Request for Research Data

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 16, 2006

Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> What is the best way to explain what is on your mind - if you focus  
> on the
> distance between the two - before they meet - it might be a good  
> option to
> write it this way. ( "the wrong way" - smile)


Dear SW List...Stuart, Stefan...everyone -
What matters is that we can help the research project, so Stuart you  
need to guide us a little more as to what you need to know...smile...

Please excuse me if I got us on the wrong track here...maybe you do  
not want a discussion of Spelling Rules, and are interested in  
something else entirely?...

Thanks for your comment above, Stefan. The length of the arrow stem  
determines the length of the movement. If the arrow is small, the  
hands would start fairly close to each other, and if the arrow stem  
is longer, the hands start further away from each other...so within  
the rules that were established by our Deaf Action Committee and  
myself back in the 1980s and 1990s, we chose to write the position of  
contact, and then the length of the arrow stem told us how far away  
we started the movement...the movement could have been wiggly and  
uneven, or with corners or curves, it could be long or short, but the  
focus was still the position of contact, because the purpose of the  
arrow is to finish in contact, and that contact holds the focus...see  
attached...Thanks for your excellent comments!


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