facial expressions
Sandy Fleming
sandy at SCOTSTEXT.ORG
Sun Jul 9 08:44:01 UTC 2006
The first seems to me to express a mood of inane happiness :)
The second, is like two people walking happily but nonchalantly up a
hill, looking towards the top.
But this is ASL and I'm BSL, so I could be wrong!
Sandy
Valerie Sutton wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:
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>> Here in the south of England the "oral" English features of BSL go
>> on a spectrum amongst different signers. Some apply English
>> "keywords" to every single sign, some only keyword a selection of
>> signs, some keyword only those signs which they feel they can make
>> more specific by keywording, some keyword only fingerspelling, and
>> some use no English at all.
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> Ha! A wide spectrum of choices, and SignWriting can write them
> all...the writer's choice ;-)
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> What do you think of writing the moods of a signer, such as smiling
> faces in children's stories?...or moods for poetry?
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