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[fernando capovilla]

Wow, dear Valerie!
That is so great!
Thank you! Just what we needed ;-)
Please do keep on posting them!
Thank you!
Fernando


2011/1/28 Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>

>  SignWriting List
> January 28, 2011
>
> Signs in these examples are written in Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and
> are from the book Novo Diet-Libras, Língua de Sinais Brasileira, Volume 1,
> Universidade de São Paulo;
> http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/NovoDeitLibras.html
>
>  ------------
>
> SignSpelling Guideline 5:
>  <http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html>Surface Symbols
> are NOT needed in daily writing... Do not use them for everyday use ...
>
> Surface Symbols are Contact Symbols. They can only be used when two hands
> are contacting each other or contacting another part of the body. They are
> used in detailed writing, when trying to show the exact surface where the
> contact is made...so occasionally Surface Symbols have value for detailed
> writing...but readers read signs without them and the writing becomes easier
> to read if you do not use them.
>
> Here is a GOOD example of the use of a Surface Symbol below. The two hands
> contact each other, and the Surface Symbol shows that the right hand is on
> top of the left hand's surface:
>
>
>
>
> But for everyday writing, even in this correct case above, I would not
> write the Surface Symbol, unless there is another sign in the language that
> is done on another surface and could be confused with it.
>
> Here is an INCORRECT use of a Surface Symbol:
>
>
>
> In the sign above, which shows the right hand swinging forward and back
> under the finger of the left hand, the two hands do not touch. There is no
> contact, so it cannot use a Surface Symbol. The writer was trying to show
> that the right hand is placed "under" the left hand, but that could easily
> be read without the Surface Symbol... This sign is illustrated on page 359
> of Novo-Diet-Libras, showing no contact.
>
> So here is how I would write the sign for BALANÇO (2):
>
>
>
>
> More examples of incorrect use of Surface Symbols will be listed next
> message...
>
> Learn more about Surface Symbols
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less028.html
>
>
>
>  Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
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