spelling repeated movement

[Adam Frost]

I have thought about this before, and when Val mentioned that some  
people have misread it I was a little confused how. After some  
thinking about it, I can see how it could be misread. But I have also  
seen people misread the arrows separated as well. As far as the  
arrowheads being next verses overlapping, I don't really see that much  
of a difference except that it is a little more compact. With having  
the extra arrowheads, it makes the arrow seem larger though. Just some  
musing about it. :-)

Adam

On Mar 29, 2009, at 7:45 AM, SignWriting wrote:

> SignWriting List
> March 29, 2009
>
> Hello Stefan! and everyone...
> Thank you for this message, and wow! it is so impressive to see how  
> many signs you have added to the German SignPuddle Dictionary:
>
> German Sign Language Dictionary in SignPuddle
> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=8&sgn=53
>
> I see there are 8510 entries in your dictionary! You have been  
> working hard! Congratulations...
>
> Your question is a good one and has actually been discussed before  
> here on the List. Years ago...back in the 1980's, we tried this idea  
> of the repeated arrowheads and writing that way is fine and I love  
> it...but...people did not always read it the way I expected...so let  
> me try to explain how some people would do that motion...
>
> Instead of going back to the beginning of the first arrow three  
> times, they would do the first movement, and then they would move a  
> tiny bit more forward the second time, and a tiny bit more forward  
> again the third time...They would never return to the beginning  
> position each time...I was disappointed myself to see how that was  
> read...so I learned something from that...the three arrowheads have  
> to become like "one symbol" literally written on top of each other  
> like this...see my example attached...I put this in your German  
> SignPuddle dictionary under "test Val"...which you are welcome to  
> delete! here it is:
>
>
> <Stefan-Arrows.png>
>
>
>
> -----------------
>
> On Mar 29, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>> Hi Valerie, sw-list members -
>> today I thought about a second way to indicate that the same  
>> movement is performed two or three times. Just adding another  
>> arrowhead should be enough – what do you think? Would you read both  
>> spellings as the same? Sometimes this option – if possible – would  
>> allow to write the sign not so complex.
>> water supply  (Wasserzulauf)
>
>
>
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