[Sw-l] [SPAM] Forearm Rotation or axial motion symbols

Sat Feb 3 00:01:50 UTC 2018

SignWriting List
February 2, 2018

Steve and Dianne Parkhurst have written several books teaching SignWriting. They have beautiful illustrations and explanations and Steve is the illustrator - such a talented person all around. Thank you to the Parkhursts!

Here is the PDF to one of their books:
http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs5/sw0493-SWLessonsBook-Parkhurst-EngLSE.pdf

and in this book they have lovely illustrations, and some are the Rotation Symbols...here is a screen capture of a picture that might help... it is an excerpt from the book linked above:

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> On Feb 2, 2018, at 3:02 PM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM> wrote:
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> SignWriting List
> February 2, 2018
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> Hello Rachel and everyone -
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> And Adam, if you would like to answer these questions, please feel free ;-)
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> These symbols work well, and they are explained exactly where you say, Rachel, on page 142 in the Lessons in SignWriting Textbook, but I can see that it was hard for you to understand the explanation there, and it has been hard for others to understand too, so you are not alone.
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> So, first for others to understand, you can download the Lessons in SignWritng textbook here:
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> Lessons in SignWriting Textbook
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/books/index.html#LessonsSW <http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/books/index.html#LessonsSW>
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> You will find on page 142, it explains that the forearm is like an "axis".... a fulcrum...there is the axis and the rotation arrow showing movement around the axis...
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> Can you view this video? I just made it a few minutes ago...I still have to do the captions and I wish Adam could make a little video teaching these symbols? That would be so much better than my videos...I still do not know how to get a video to show up in an email - I must learn that...
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> Here is a video link to YouTube...
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> https://youtu.be/gBDFQRfd_rI <https://youtu.be/gBDFQRfd_rI>
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> I will write again when I have the strength and try to figure out how to explain them better than what is explained in the textbook already...
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> Val ;-)
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>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 7:12 PM, rchannon1 at VERIZON.NET <mailto:rchannon1 at VERIZON.NET> wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone,  
>> I have a new question – this time about rotation symbols.  In the lessons in signwriting book (maybe I should say bible 😊)  forearm rotation is discussed starting on page 142.  I am just having a hard time understanding how the symbols match with the actions.
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>> The problem is that I don’t understand what the arrows mean in the rotation symbols.  I see that for example if the forearm points up, that is the wall plane and it is a double line.  But if the arrow shows a movement to the right, what does that mean?  Because technically the arm stays in one place and doesn’t move?
>> This is the set of signs that I am trying to understand:  (S2df)
>>  
>> 񋎡
>> 񋎢
>> 񋎣
>> 񋎤
>> 񋎥
>> 񋎦
>> 񋎧
>> 񋎨
>> 񋎩
>> 񋎪
>> 񋎫
>> 񋎬
>> 񋎭
>> 񋎮
>> 񋎯
>> 񋎰
>>  
>> If I am describing these symbols can I say something like the following:  (in all these symbols I understand we are talking about the right arm and it is in an upright position, pointing to the ceiling)
>> In the first symbol, the thumb moves from right to left and the palm first faces the signer and then faces the viewer
>> In the second symbol, the thumb moves left and down??? 
>> In the third symbol, the thumb moves in a curve from left to right so that the hand is first palm out to viewer and then palm in to signer?
>> The fourth symbol looks almot like the third
>> In the fifth symbol, the thumb moves left to right and the palm of the hand is first facing the viewer and ends facing the signer?
>>  
>> I am really confused…..
>>  
>> Rachel
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