Writing Heads Facing the Front Corner...something new ; -)

[Bill Reese]

There's two ways of looking at that, Charles.  If you were a scribe 
using ink on paper, you could easily make one side of the face thicker 
by pressing more firmly on the ink pen as you round out the face.  The 
sign appears simpler, as there are less symbols to the sign.  I believe 
that's what's happening here with these face symbols, too - that 
although there are more symbols in the symbol set, the use of them makes 
for a simpler sign.

Bill

Charles Butler wrote:
> I guess what I am talking  about is the multiplicity of symbols.  If 
> you add more darkened heads, rather than adding one symbol, a 
> face-direction darkening arc, you add another 8 heads. 
>
> Looking at the IMWA,  I'm  getting to the point of throwing up my 
> hands.  Rather than keeping the symbol set simple, each new feature 
> becomes additive to something old, so that, for example, the wrist 
> line is being added to each movement arc to hold it in place rather  
> than having the wrist line separate and all the darkening arcs for the 
> head separate. 
>
> If the head is one thing, seen  from the back, or from the front, or 
> the side, you then have an arc, one symbol, not a darkened head on one 
> side.
>
> Charles
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> *From:* Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
> *To:* SignWriting List <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:26:01 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [sw-l] Writing Heads Facing the Front 
> Corner...something new ; -)
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> SignWriting List
> March 18, 2009
>
> Thanks for the message below, Charles -
>
> The symbols that I was showing are from the Front View...or perhaps a 
> better way to explain it is that the reader is standing behind the 
> signer and viewing the head from that perspective...
>
> If you want to view the head from the overhead top view, you certainly 
> can, or even the side view...all those opportunities are there for you 
> with the ISWA 2008 symbolset...You can easily write what you posted in 
> your message, Charles, with the ISWA symbolset...
>
> These symbols for the head facing the front corner are already in the 
> ISWA 2008 symbolset too. No one has to use them however...that is a 
> choice. I like them a lot and use them daily now, when writing 
> storytelling from video...so they are working for me and i know others 
> who are writing with them too...
>
> If you are standing behind the signer and the signer turns to the 
> front corner, the side of the head that is closer to the reader can be 
> darkened...here is another example:
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> Val ;-)
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> On Mar 18, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Charles Butler wrote:
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> > Would not having a "facial turn" arc serve better rather than having 
> a whole new stack of heads.  That  way it could be moved around to any 
> side of the face to show that the whole head and body turns without  
> adding more heads to the system.
> >
> > I'm thinking of something like this.
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