SignWriting Handwriting and palm facing

[Charles Butler]

No I use the slash for palm facing parallel to the floor in my teaching style. 
 In one of the lessons he was using the slash across the palms for palm up and 
away or down and away (parallel to arrows).  I'm teaching handwriting as well as 
computer writing.

If I were to use the slash as up and out, I'd put it at the tip of the hand so I 
could conceivably write palm up and and out, (slash at the tip) and palm up and 
back (dot on the tip).  If you put a dark circle above the tip, you squeeze the 
hand, and in the middle it could be a thumb projecting. 

I will make this into a PDF so you see what I mean from my lessons. It applies 
to every hand so that now you can show all those 45 degree variants that are 
sometimes a real challenge to write.  I'm still experimenting.

Charles




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From: Erika Hoffmann <erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU>
To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU
Sent: Tue, January 11, 2011 7:23:44 PM
Subject: Re: SignWriting Handwriting and palm facing

Oh yes, it's great to see Stefan and his students use the blackboard
and chalk to write SW! I was very impressed!

2011/1/11 Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann at gebaerdenschrift.de>:
> Hi everybody,
> all I can say my students developed in the meantime a pretty good competence
> write SignWriting  by hand on the blackboard or on a sheet of paper.
>
> Hi Erica - would you agree? - smile
>
> They prefer using this slash for the palm facing parallel to the floor and
> there is no confusion whatsoever.
>
> Stefan ;-)
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages
> [mailto:SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU] Im Auftrag von Valerie Sutton
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2011 00:39
> An: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU
> Betreff: SignWriting Handwriting and palm facing
>
> SignWriting List
> January 11, 2011
>
> Hi Charles -
>
> I have changed this thread to "SignWriting Handwriting and palm facing"
> since your question is about Handwriting?
>
> There are several kinds of handwriting. There is the SW Printing, like block
> printing for English, that is "perfect" or as close to the way we type or
> publish ...so that kind of handwritten symbols does not use the slash
> because it is trying to write the symbols by hand, exactly as they are
> written by computer.
>
> Then there is the handwriting for personal use - which is like a blend of
> handwriting and shorthand... I like the slash for the palm facing parallel
> to the floor, but you are not required to use it if you don't want to - it
> was just a suggestion - after all, your handwriting is for yourself, so you
> can read your own notes, so if you don't like the slash representing the
> horizon line for palms parallel to the floor, then use another method for
> quick writing of palm facing -
>
> Have you seen our SignWriting Handwriting lessons on the web?...the slash is
> not taught here:
>
> SignWriting Handwriting
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/handwriting/lesson102.html
>
>
> Of course none of this occurs in the current SignPuddle because SignPuddle
> does not have handwritten symbols - they are symbols for computers and
> publishing and that is a different experience... we do not have a slash
> through the hand in the official "printing" of symbols in SignWriting, only
> for handwriting or shorthand...
>
> So just do what is best for you -
>
> and handwriting symbols are not in SignPuddle -
>
> Val ;-)
>
> -------
>
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Charles Butler wrote:
>
>> I am confused about the slashed hands in the lessons in Sign Writing. I
> have been teaching handwriting, and the handwriting symbols have not usually
> been taught with lines across them except as a shorthand for hands
> horizontal rather than vertical.  Having a hand with a slash does not appear
> in the current SignPuddle and so my Ethiopian students are likely to be
> confused.  I use arrows to show directions where there are not other than
> the four points of the compass.  The 45 degree plane is not very well
> defined on handshapes, so this has really confused me.
>>
>> Sign shown:
>>    /\
>>   /  \
>
>



-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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