invisible person in ASL storytelling...

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Indeed it is relatively easy to reverse what you see. However, SignWriting
is a script and it works only when everyone reads it in the same way.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/9/17 Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>

> 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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