Head tilt

[Adam Frost]

Thank you. :-)

Adam

On 7/6/07, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
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> Yes, that is correct ;-)
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> Val ;-)
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> On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
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> > I was wondering about those symbols. So the ones on the noes means
> > static while the ones above the head means that it moves to the tilt?
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> > Adam
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> > On 7/6/07, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote: SignWriting
> > List
> > July 6, 2007
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> > On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
> > > I have a question about head movements. I know that the  arrows on
> > > top of the head means that the head moves as if the nose is drawing
> > > the arrow. The way that Stefan taught me a while ago is that the
> > > double stem move the head to look side to side, up and down, while
> > > the single arrows move the head as if doing an Egyptian dance side
> > > to side, and forward and back without moving the face from looking
> > > forward. How do you write it if the head is tilting side to side?
> > > Adam
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> > Hello Adam ;-)
> > Thanks for this question and Stefan of course taught you correctly!
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> > The Head Movement with the double-stemmed arrows shows the direction
> > of the nose moving.
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> > The Head Movement with the single-stemmed arrows shows the neck
> > projecting the head in that direction, like forward, or side to side
> > in Egyptian dancing. We do use the single lined arrow for Head
> > Movements in writing ASL for questions...the head is projected
> > forward and that takes a single-stemmed arrow...
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> > One way to show a tilt of the head is this way, which really means
> > that the nose is directed up in the direction of the arrow. So in
> > this example the nose is looking up toward the upper left corner,
> > which automatically tilts the head a little back and side-left:
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> > Another way to show a Head Tilt, is with the position of the Tilting
> > Nose. This is an exact side tilt. The nose is straight forward. The
> > movement is from the neck.
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> > and a third way is Tilting Head Movement symbols, showing the movment
> > of one Tilt, two tilts in the same direction, three tilts in the same
> > direction, and tilts back and forth...
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