Touch / strike and arrows

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 3, 2012

Hi Eduardo and Adam -
Adam has explained everything perfectly -

Just a side note…
Do you know about SignWriting E-Lessons? These are old answers on the SignWriting List years ago:

SignWriting E-Lessons
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/

There are two SignSpelling Rules that are on the SignWriting E-Lessons that are important:

1. Write Position of Contact
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html

and

2. Every Sign Has a Center
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html

This goes for many web pages and may be helpful to you -

I see you have 20 signs in the Uruguay SignPuddle!
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.6/index.php?ui=5&sgn=143

Thank you for writing Uruguay signs, Eduardo -

Val ;-)

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On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Eduardo Trápani wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In order not to ask for every other sign I try to write :) I first check if there is one similar in ASL and then look for the video here[1] to be certain.  It's great for learning, although sometimes I get even more confused (as with "fumble"), usually it helps.
> 
> In this case I didn't know whether to use strike # or touch * for this [2] sign in my language, or whether I need an arrow, maybe the     strike/touch is enough?  I would write it like this:
> 
> or , or .   Are there some rules of style I can read about?  Something that would help decide which writing is better?  I assume that the ASL signs have been reviewed by more people and take them as the example to follow, but that might not always be the case.
> 
> Looking for something similar in ASL I ended up in "make", but there are two versions, one with * and one with #.  They do not use arrows though, so I guess I can also do without.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> But I wonder, are those two texts meant to represent the same sign in ASL?  They're different alright, but I haven't found alternatives for "make" in the online dictionaries.
> 
> Eduardo.
> 
> [1] http://www.signingsavvy.com/
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxz_CUViYg#t=2m12s

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