Happy New Year to the SignWriting List!

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 30, 2010

On Dec 30, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Eda AMORim wrote:

> Olá Val,
> Obrigada! Farei um tutorial explicando. Fiz no Adobe Illustrator.
> Thank you! I'll make a tutorial. I made in Adobe Illustrator


Olá Eda!
Thank you for changing the card so fast - that is amazing!

You are very skilled with Adobe Illustrator...I use the Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium (CS5) - and Illustrator is a part of that suite of programs, so we use some of the same software ;-)

I am happy you are creating a tutorial. Let's talk about the third sign, for NEW? NOVO? I do not know the sign, but I should be able to read the movements, but I am not sure of the movement...

Does it start with a circle shape for the right hand, and then moves side and opens up in a five hand? Like this?

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: NOVO_Brasil.png
Type: image/png
Size: 6319 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20101230/da944171/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------


You see, the little hollow circle that represents the opening of fingers (that appears at the end of your arrow in the third sign), could mean that you were opening to a variety of different handshapes...but if you write the finishing hand shape, it is a lot clearer for the reader... If you write that second position then it is not necessary to write the hollow dot that means to open the fingers...so is my sign for NOVO correct in LIBRAS? or have I misunderstood?

I look forward to your answer ;-)

Val ;-)



-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: feliz_ano_novo-2.jpg
Type: image/jpg
Size: 179611 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20101230/da944171/attachment.jpg>