Contact symbol put where? :-)

Stuart Thiessen sw at PASSITONSERVICES.ORG
Tue May 1 02:12:00 UTC 2007


Yeah. That makes sense to me. What about Philip and other Deaf on the  
list?  What do you all think?

Stuart

On Apr 30, 2007, at 20:57, Valerie Sutton wrote:

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> Stuart, if you agree with Adam, then this has really helped move us  
> towards a new rule of placement of the contact stars. Do you agree  
> with Adam that these two spellings seem natural? If so, I will  
> change my writing in the ASL SignPuddle dictionary ;-)
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> On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>> That is exactly how I would have written them. :-)
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>> Adam
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at MAC.COM>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:37:54
>> To:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] Contact symbol put where? :-)
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>> SignWriting List
>> April 30, 2007
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>> On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>> My personal general rule for contact placing (could be entirely
>>> wrong but for what it's worth) is that the handshape that is doing
>>> the contact has the contact symbol on the opposite side of the
>>> contact. So if you look at both Stuart's and Cindy's sign name, you
>>> see that the double touch is opposite of the actual contact
>>> (releative of course).
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>> This is interesting, Adam. So following your idea above, then these
>> two signs are written correctly below?
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>> How would you write contact on the cheek directly side with the fist?
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>> Val ;-)
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