compounded sings

[Honza]

Hi Val again,

yeah, you are right.
There are more sings, that are combinations of two or more sings and
nowadays in SignMaker it is not possible to create signs combining
previously written signs.

thanks,
Honza

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>wrote:

> Hello Honza -
> Thanks for this message. I hope in the future you can post these kinds of
> questions to the SignWriting List. That helps me because we all learn
> together that way...
>
> I am not sure I understand you...
>
> Here is what I think you are asking...
>
> Some signs are "combinations" of two signs...
>
> for example "sister-in-law" is the combination of the individual signs for
> "LAW" and "SISTER"...
>
> right now, we can only copy one sign at a time in SignMaker in
> SignPuddle...but you are hoping that we could copy LAW and then SISTER and
> place them BOTH into SignMaker so that he could then combine them into ONE
> sign and save them in SignPuddle as a "compound sign" that is one sign with
> two signs inside it...
>
> Is that what you are asking for? The ability to copy more than one sign
> into SignMaker to combine signs into compound signs?
>
> I realized that feature would be useful before, but instead I copy one sign
> into SignMaker and then write the second one from scratch...which by the way
> is just as well because sometimes the two signs blend together anyway...and
> then I save the combination into SignPuddle...
>
> At least I guessed that is what you mean...if I am wrong please explain,
> and please be sure to send your answer to both Steve and me...
>
> And feel free to post on the SignWriting List...that is best for us...
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Aug 2, 2008, at 3:33 AM, Honza wrote:
>
>  Hi Val,
>>
>> recently we came across difficulties writing down terms (signs) containing
>> more than one signs.
>> I mean signs which are compounded from other signs.
>>
>> For example if you have "brother in law", that is signed
>> SISTER+MY+HUSBAND+HER, it is necessary to write down all separate signs in
>> one field.
>> It would be more useful to have possibility to use previously written down
>> signs and compound term (sing) Brother-in-law from that signs like in
>> SignText.
>> And it would be better from the linguistic point of view as well (this is
>> used in spoken language dictionaries as well)
>>
>> thanks
>> Honza
>>
>
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