AW: [sw-l] How to write these Portuguese Colors

[Adam Frost]

True, I did achieve a GRAY with one head, but I personally feel that  
the separated heads read better. Also, I placed the heads close enough  
that it would not be confused as two separate signs when in a full  
text. Thanks for your feedback. I enjoy all the ones I get. ;-)

Adam

On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:33 AM, SignWriting wrote:

> SignWriting List
> November 3, 2009
>
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> On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam and everyone,
>>
>>     If the writer uses two separate heads for one sign in the  
>> SignText, the reader assumes that there are two different signs,  
>> not only one sign precisely because of the two separate heads.  It  
>> is easier to read two separate heads for one sign in the   
>> SignPuddle dictionary than in the SignText.
>>
>>     Adam, you did achieve a GRAY writing sign because the reader  
>> knows one head, two different movements and three different  
>> handshapes for one sign in the SignText.
>>
>>     Hand waving
>>
>>     André
>
>
> Thank you, Andre, for this message, and I will let Adam answer you  
> on the other issues...
>
> Regarding the issue of dictionary entries and SignText entries,  
> which you mention above...
>
> I think what you are really saying is that when we write full  
> sentences in SignWriting, and the reader is reading down the column,  
> that maybe the reader might think that the two-headed sign is really  
> two separate signs...
>
> That is why I mentioned that the two heads need to be closer  
> together in the one sign...without so much space between them...so  
> the reader knows they are ONE sign and not two...it can be  
> done...there is a technique to it...
>
> Of course there are many ways to write and some people do not write  
> with two heads as much as i do possibly - ha!
>
> Let me show you an example of a two-headed sign...
>
> The sign for Facial Expression in ASL is a little like a compound  
> sign, and the two heads are written close together. If these were  
> two separate signs, there would be more space between the heads:
>
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