BRASIL Composed signs: Libras

[Mª Cristina P. Pereira]

Val answers:
When you say composed sign, do you mean a compound sign? There are
several ways to write this. The sign for CHURCH is now in your LIBRAS
SignPuddle on the web...I added different versions there:

Yes, Valerie, church is igreja. But I meant that the sign has an
order. A compound sign, first /house/ then after /cross/, how do we
write it showing this first and second sign (at the same place)?
Thanks!
Cris

2006/2/13, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>:
> SignWriting List
> February 13, 2006
>
> BRASIL....
>
> Hello Cristina!
>
> Wonderful web page that mentions and uses SignWriting!
> http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/macripiper/ils.htm
>
> OK...regarding the Brazilian sign for CHURCH...
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>
> > Cristina wrote:
> >> Well...I'd ask you if writing vertically it won't be better wite
> >> it as
> >> in the pic#2 and horizontally as in the pic#3.
> >> It's a composed sign: /house/+/cross/.
> >> But, in the horizontally way, how could we distinguish that it's a
> >> composed sign?
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>
> Val answers:
> When you say composed sign, do you mean a compound sign? There are
> several ways to write this. The sign for CHURCH is now in your LIBRAS
> SignPuddle on the web...I added different versions there:
>
> LIBRAS SignPuddle
> http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BR
>
> I placed them under the name IGREJA...is that the word CHURCH in
> Portuguese? If not, perhaps you would like to become an editor of the
> Brazilian SignPuddle and you can then correct the name and the
> SignWriting if you wish? Tell me if you would like to be an
> Editor...it would be great for your students to have a place to enter
> and discuss signs on the web in your class.....smile...
>
> Below are the four signs as an attached diagram to this email...
>
> Number 1 is read: Cross-House (reading down)
> Number 2 is read: House-Cross (reading down)
> Number 3 is read: House-Cross (reading left to right)
> Number 4 is read: House-Cross (reading left to right)
>
> Number 4 tells us that it is a compound sign. The other three
> versions write them close enough together to know they are one sign.
> I don't think the added line for compound-sign, which is like a
> hypen, is necessary to read it, do you? If the signs are placed very
> close to each other I think it is obvious...what do you think?  Val ;-)
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