Wavy Motion options...

[Bill Reese]

Valerie,
This has probably been talked about before - could a sign touching once 
could be written with the symbols actually touching?  So that, for 
example, "house" would become:


Bill

Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> March 12, 2009
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> On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Jonathan wrote:
>>  Thanks for these explanations.  I didn't realize that the wrist line 
>> could be used with the wavy arrow and that it anchored the movement. 
>> Though I knew that the other write arrows anchored the movement.  I 
>> like the way you explained it.  It seems so new to me and yet makes 
>> sense.  Would it be able to add more arrows for the movement? Jonathan
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> Hello Jonathan and Everyone -
> Thank you for your messages...Great to hear from you again. And 
> congratulations and thank you for your hard work on new software 
> development.
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> I have had several other people write to me with great interest in the 
> wavy motions from the wrist. First, I want to thank Nancy Romero, who 
> has been working with both DanceWriting and SignWriting since 1975. 
> Nancy is a dancer and also an interpreter in ASL. In recent years, 
> Nancy has been translating the Gospel According to John in American 
> Sign Language. Nancy and Lucinda O'Grady Batch have been editing the 
> huge document with 21 chapters, and we hope that in the summer of 2009 
> we will have the publication ready for printing...let us cross our 
> fingers!!
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> Nancy writes SignWriting in an excellent and very simple style, which 
> I really like, and it definitely has had influence on me lately. For 
> example, Nancy has taken away basic Touch stars, if they are single 
> ones...for example the sign for HOUSE touches, but if you write it 
> clearly, showing that the handshapes are touching because the 
> handshapes themselves are close to each other, the single Touch star 
> isn't necessary...and that simplifies the writing...obviously if there 
> is a double-touch, that is necessary to write because that is a real 
> movement, but single touches can be eliminated if you write the 
> Position of Contact clearly:
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> Nancy was also the one who started writing the wrist motion wavy in 
> place by placing the wrist line at the end of the wavy arrow...I think 
> it works well!
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> Thank you, Nancy!
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> OK. I plan to document all this soon, both on the web and also in a 
> new textbook I am writing. No one needs to feel nervous or concerned 
> about your old writing...this is all for the future writing of 
> documents and we do not have to go back and change anything we have 
> written before unless we want to...please know that...these are just 
> discussions and we are enjoying sharing together...
>
> I am now preparing for the CAL-ED conference which is starting 
> tomorrow here and all weekend...Cecilia Flood and Marty Carlson are 
> arriving here soon and I look forward to seeing them again!!
>
> Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and I hope you keep discussing all 
> kinds of ideas for writing!! Keep sharing..we need you!
>
> Val ;-)
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