PUNCTUATION in SignWriting sentences

Bill Reese wreese01 at TAMPABAY.RR.COM
Sat Feb 5 03:14:13 UTC 2011


Val,
I edit a newsletter and know just how important it is to get feedback.  
It gave me the opportunity to review the punctuation symbols, too.  :-)

Bill


On 2/4/2011 2:50 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
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> Hello Bill!
> Thank you for bringing up the issue of Punctuation...I love these discussions about SignWriting Symbols!
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> You understand the SignWriting Punctuation symbols very well, Bill, and you are right that the magazine article needs to be corrected.
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> Your sentence correctly shows first, a comma (pause), and then two question marks, which would fit with the English punctuation of "Hello, how you? fine?"....
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> But let's go over Punctuation Symbols ...Attached is my new diagram showing Bill's sentence on the left which is based on: Hello, how you? fine? , and also a new version of mine on the right, which is based on: Hello. How you? Fine!
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> Val ;-)
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