Contact symbol put where? :-)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 30, 2007

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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> -----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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