Arbitrary and Iconic

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 4, 2013

Thanks for your help, Charles. I need everyone's help!

So Melinda - there are wonderful people here on the List who can help you get your PowerPoint completed for your school -

I love PowerPoint and I plan to post some of our other teacher's PowerPoint presentations too, on the SignWriting site, so this is a great time to develop your PowerPoint -

I will learn with you…smile….

Val ;-)

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On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> It took reading her sentence several times think she may mean "arbitrary" or "iconic" signs. Because they are "iconic" they are contextual, meaning "not a dictionary entry" but simply a configuration that is being used in a particular sense, like the "three" hand being used for "vehicles" in several signs. I looked up "vehicle" and found these three signs that are used in that context. ABC poems use that concept all the time. SignWriting is based on writing what you see, NOT the meaning. 
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> Two cars get into an accident, they stop, then one follows the other away. 
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> Charles Butler
> chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> 240-764-5748
> Clear writing moves business forward.
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> From: Melinda <gersteinb at AOL.COM>
> To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:09 PM
> Subject: Fwd: SignWriting in PowerPoint
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melinda <gersteinb at aol.com>
> To: gersteinb <gersteinb at aol.com>
> Sent: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 11:05 am
> Subject: Re: SignWriting in PowerPoint
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> how do I translate words like arbituary and iconic words in ASL?
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> melinda
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melinda <gersteinb at aol.com>
> To: SW-L <SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
> Sent: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 11:00 am
> Subject: Re: SignWriting in PowerPoint
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> PLEASE CHECK IT OUT WHERE i TRANSLATE,
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> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/translate.php?ui=1&sgn=4
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM>
> To: SW-L <SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
> Sent: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 10:56 am
> Subject: Re: SignWriting in PowerPoint
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> SignWriting List
> August 30, 2013
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> On Aug 30, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Melinda <gersteinb at AOL.COM> wrote:
>> I went in the website that you suggested and I tran to add the wordon translate and nothing happens.
>> Can you tell me what I a doing wrong? Smile, Melinda
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> Hello Melinda!
> Thank you for trying…big smile too ;-))
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> Let us take it one step at a time to see what happens…I am sure we can figure it out...
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> You went to:
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=4
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> Looking at the attached diagram, you succeeded to do Number 1 and 2 and 3, but then nothing happened? When you scrolled down you did not see any choices of signs?
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> There is a chance that the signs you tried to translate were not in the ASL Dictionary…what words did you try to translate?
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> For right now, lets try the word HELLO  - do not try other words - let us first see if you can get it to work for the word HELLO...
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> Then we can start doing your real translation together…
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> Write again to tell me if you can translate the word HELLO…. and do what is in the diagram…
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> Thanks Melinda - and welcome once again to the List ;-)
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