Brush-Between Symbol for ESCAPE in ASL

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
January 23, 2009

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Just enjoy SignWriting and write as you wish!

Val ;-)

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On Jan 23, 2009, at 6:00 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> I have to agree with Ingvild.  The system is getting so completely  
> complicated it is no longer easy to understand and uniform.  A brush  
> between should be sufficient, adding the orientation just makes it  
> complicated.  The Roman alphabet has 26 letters and has managed to  
> survive thousands of years.  By contrast, Sign Writing is a little  
> over 26 years old and now has thousands of symbols.
>
> Don't complicate things and make them a requirement.
>
> Charles Butler
>
>
>
> Ingvild Roald <iroald at hotmail.com> wrote:For easy reading, the last  
> one is better. The two lines and the things (fingers) that the brush  
> is between, are oriented the same way.
>
> But for simplicity of the writing system, I not so sure. This is  
> adding another level of complications / choices
>
> Ingvild
>
>
>
> > From: signwriting at mac.com
> > To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:09:56 -0800
> > Subject: [sw-l] Brush-Between Symbol for ESCAPE in ASL
> >
> > SignWriting List
> > January 22, 2009
> >
> > My next question to you all...which do you prefer?
> >
> > In the ISWA, we can now rotate the In-Between Symbols....For  
> example,
> > here is the sign for ESCAPE in ASL, but notice that the second  
> writing
> > chooses to rotate the Brush-Between Symbol...Does that give more of
> > the feeling that we are brushing between two fingers? Which spelling
> > do you prefer? Val ;-)
> >
> >
>
>
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