diagonal forward etc arrows

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 7, 2009

Hello Honza and Maria!
Thank you for your messages...Actually these arrows do not have the  
exact same meanings. They are certainly close to each other, and if  
you used one or the other, your writing would be just fine, and mean  
very similar movements, so similar in fact, that most people would be  
perfectly happy with your writing, but nonetheless, the arrows do have  
slightly different meanings...

To explain with words...the Horizontal line means "hitting the horizon  
line" in front of you...so where you place the Horizontal Line for the  
Horizon, gives you slightly different in-between angles...and the same  
with the dark dot for the nose of the airplane flying toward  
you...where you place the dark dot shows the slant of the in-between  
arrow...

When the Horizontal Line and the Dark Dot are placed exactly in the  
center of the stem line, then that means an exact in-between, and is  
the easiest to understand...I use those myself. I would suggest that  
you use those too, and forget using the others, as the others are too  
detailed and rarely used.

But if you wanted an in-between of an in-between for research  
purposes, then I would use the others...for example the one with the  
dark dot near the arrowhead means that you hit the horizon line coming  
towards you at the end of the movement, since the dark dot is near the  
finishing of the arrow at the arrowhead...and the Horizontal Line at  
the beginning of the stem line, which is what your number 3 was  
supposed to represent, Honza, implies that you are traveling up but  
you hit the horizon earlier than the one with the Horizon Line in the  
center of the stem line...

Gosh - I hope I have explained these with words ok...I would suggest  
using your 1 and 2, Honza, and forget the detailed writings of in- 
betweens of in-betweens...3 and 4

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Hope this has helped...

Val ;-)

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On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Honza wrote:

> Hi Maria,
>
> yes it seem to me as well - that there are two arrows for one  
> movement.
> thanks.
>
> Honza
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM, MARIA
> AZZOPARDI<maria.azzopardi at um.edu.mt> wrote:
>> Hi Honza,
>>
>> As far as I know:
>>
>> Number 1 is the same as number 3.
>> Number 2 is the same as number 4.
>>
>> You have a choice to use either ones. In my signwriting I always go  
>> for
>> number 1 which is diagonal-up and number 2 diagonal-down. I don't use
>> number 3 and 4. However you can decide to use number 3 and 4 and not
>> number 1 and 2 if you prefer them.
>>
>> Hope I'm right here, please correct me Valerie if I'm mistaken.
>>
>> Have a nice day
>> Maria
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> can anyone tell me what are differences between this two arrows?  
>>> (see
>>> attachment).
>>> I know the meaning of the arrows in the first column (arrows 1,2),  
>>> but
>>> I don't see any difference between arrows 1 and 3, 2 and 4.
>>> It gives me the same directions.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Honza
>>>
>>>
>>>
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