i want to understand this better

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 18, 2009

On Aug 18, 2009, at 9:52 AM, kittygurl1 tds.net wrote:
> I have never heard of Sign Writing until I googled and found it.  I  
> am learning Sign Language now using a book entitled Signing  
> Illustrated by Mickey Flodin, am i to understand that our  
> fingerspelling or the hand shape of the word is how the symbol is  
> written, like the sign for boy is using your right or left hand to  
> the forehead like grasping a ball cap so the writtne symbol would be  
> a ball cap.  is this correct. Simone

Hello Simone!
I am very happy to meet you, and welcome to the SignWriting List!

And thank you for your question.

Let me slowly, step by step, teach you and others who are new to  
SignWriting, how to read the sign for BOY in American Sign Language.


First, you can search for signs yourself, written in SignWriting  
online. This will help you learn.

How to search?

1. go to our ASL SignPuddle Online Dictionary, to search for the sign  
for BOY.

Go to:

ASL Dictionary Online
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=4


2. Click on the "Search by Words" button top left on the  
screen...Then, in the search field, type the word for BOY, and click  
on SEARCH.

Many choices are listed for writing the sign for BOY. Here are two:


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3. How do we read the writing? The circle for the head is really your  
own head. We are writing it from our perspective, as if we are the  
signer. The handshape and movement are written to the right side of  
the Head Circle (our right side). So the person is not facing us. We  
are writing and reading our own signing.

The handshape symbol shows the Angle Handshape and there are movement  
symbols. Can you get the feel for reading this?

Want to download a textbook that teaches SignWriting? it is free to  
download...or you can watch videos that teach SignWriting...go to:

Lessons in SignWriting
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/

And keep asking us questions here on the List...that is what the List  
is for and we always welcome your questions...

Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

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Tel: 858-456-0098  Skype: valeriesutton

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