spelling question: streched arm circles

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October 24, 2009

Hello Everyone, Stefan, Erika - dear friends!
I am soo looking forward to reading Erika's work, and also answering  
this question in further depth, Stefan. Thank you for your patience  
with me...I am in the middle of laying out 7 chapters of the Gospel  
According to John...in total there are 2100 columns in the entire  
document...around 525 pages with four columns to a page...I am working  
with around 700 columns right now and I need to finish this all at  
once or I will forget what i am doing! So I will come back to the List  
as soon as I finish...

But to answer your question briefly, Stefan...If you are writing  
SignWriting, the chances of full circles from the shoulder joint, and  
not from the elbow joint are rare...in fact I don't believe I have  
ever seen that as a part of a real sign in a sign language. That is  
why we chose just the elbow and wrist circle symbols for SignWriting...

So your question is in the Movement Writing and DanceWriting area...

And do you really want to know the details of how we write the  
difference between shoulder, elbow, wrist and finger circles in  
DanceWriting? We have four distinctly-different symbols for each kind  
of circle in DanceWriting and Movement Writing...which are explained  
in my DanceWriting for Modern and Jazz Dance Textbook from 1978...I  
can find those pages and scan them in for you later...

Meanwhile, if you are using this motion for your Deaf students etc,  
then perhaps it is not necessary to teach them DanceWriting  
symbols...your diagram extending the size of the elbow-related circle  
symbol, and then adding the straight arm before or after the motion  
could be enough for them to understand, without having to teach new  
symbols...so go right ahead and do that method...

Later, when the first 7 chapters of the Gospel According to John are  
in a complete book, I will be happy to teach the four circle symbols  
in DanceWriting and MovementWriting if you wish...

And Erika, once again, you are not forgotten! Yesterday I had a  
conversation on Skype with Jonathan Duncan from Honduras, and he told  
me how much he enjoyed your paper and how fascinating it was...so I  
know I look forward to really reading your work in detail...

And Stefan - THANK YOU for the writing in SignWriter DOS that you  
did ...which you posted in that wonderful page format that Rich  
Gleaves designed - that is a beautiful page layout format...and your  
writing with all the mouth movements was really impressive ...

Val ;-)

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On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hi Valerie and listmembers,
>
> last Friday we asked ourselves how to write a movement if the arm  
> describes a big circle.
> We can write the circle movement – small circle or big  circle of a  
> hand in front of the body – the elbow is involved – but the upper  
> arm just moves forward and backward –
> What about stretching the arm – and moving the stretched arm in big  
> circles aside the body? – maybe just only really  b i g  circles ??
>
> Stefan ;-)
>
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