Suggestion

[Stuart Thiessen]

The movement is exactly the same as AMAZEMENT. I just copied the same
symbols that we used for that to describe this sign. Does that mean we
should use the dots in AMAZEMENT too?

Thanks,

Stuart

On 4/18/06, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> April 18, 2006
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> Stuart wrote:
> > Hi! I wanted to make a suggestion something that Philip and I have
> > talked about. We were talking about the ASL name for SignWriting. We
> > want to suggest a different name sign for SignWriting. We have listed
> > them under SignWriting_3 (for vertical writing) and SignWriting_4 (for
> > horizontal writing).
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> Hello Stuart, Philip and everyone!
> I will leave ASL decisions to all of you...smile...glad you are
> thinking about these issues ;-)
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> A side note: the writing of the sign for SIGN needs a tiny
> correction...see attached diagram....When you open and close from a
> square fist...the symbols need to be dots...a dark dot means to close
> the Middle Joints into a fist, and the Hollow dots mean to open the
> fist to an open hand...the little arrows for opening and closing from
> the Knuckle Joint are called Hinge Arrows, and they cannot be used in
> this particular sign, because Hinge Arrows are only used when the
> fingers remain completely straight but only hinge up and down at the
> knuckle joint...I will show more on this next message ;-)
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Stuart Thiessen
Des Moines, IA