invisible person in ASL storytelling...

[Charles Butler]

Looking at videos makes me ponder why we don't teach both projective and receptive sign writing.  Looking at a video and then the sign writing next to it, they don't match, they are reverse images of each other and it drives one crazy to stop, put it on one's own hands, and put the facing image there.  Trying to compare them is apples to oranges.
Sign writing is 3-dimensional, and when I was taught it, you literally wrote what you saw.  Your right hand is your right hand, a photo's right hand is to your left.  
With all of SW in a computer program, it could be made to reverse everything relatively easily.  
Charles

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:

From: Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
Subject: Re: [sw-l] invisible person in ASL storytelling...
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Cc: "Jonita Juhala" <josignj at aol.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 6:06 PM

SignWriting List
September 16, 2009

Hi Jonita.

Rather than writing a second imaginary person (which has only been "implied" on the video, but is not really there)...just write how the signer tried to explain that imaginary person..These are complex videos to transcribe and I admire your courage!

Write exactly what you think you see the signer do...but don't worry about the meaning of the "imaginary person"...

Please see attached... In this writing I showed that the signer is facing the corner, and he brushes his own tongue, and then pretends to brush another person's tongue in "the middle of the air"...The tension symbol helps give the feeling of the movement...




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