SignWriting

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 13, 2009

Hello Maher Jbeli!
Thank you for this message. I am posting my answer to the SignWriting  
List, in case some of the list members might be able to help you too...

The sign for TEACHER or TUTOR is a combination of two signs, that make  
one sign. The two signs are TEACH (A in your diagram), and the second  
sign is PERSON (B in your diagram). Because readers know American Sign  
Language already, when reading this we just know that it is TEACH and  
then PERSON because the grammar of ASL has that configuration in other  
signs too...so we assume knowledge of the language, so we did not have  
to write too much detail to understand the sign...

But I believe your project is computer programming an avatar?  
animation of a live figure using SignWriting? Do you know ASL  
yourself? In the case of programming an avatar, you may need more  
information than our daily writing of that sign...

Anyway, in this case, you read A first and B second...

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There are ways to write it so you know which comes first and which  
comes second...that is done with making the arrows connect between the  
two sections of the sign...but that is kind of hard in this case...

Val ;-)

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On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:06 PM, jbeli maher wrote:

> Hi Mme. Sutton
>
> I search in your website a course wich explain how can I interpret  
> the picture of signwring as the picture attached but I can't find.
> In this picture I begin the by "A" or "B" ? and are you have a  
> general formula or rule for deaf people how interpret those pictures  
> because in some pictures I find a difficult to interpret and read it  
> especially in cases where there are arrows up and down at the same  
> time.
>
> thank you very much
>
> regards,
> Maher JBELI
>
> Un avatar ? votre image ? Cr?ez votre mini-moi ! 
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