[Sw-l] A Filipino gesture, Pagmamano, written in MovementWriting

Thu Apr 14 21:50:38 UTC 2022

SignWriting List
April 14, 2022

Hello SignWriting List members, Sutthikhun, and AnnaGrace,

Thank you for these supportive and interesting messages about writing interpersonal contact with Sutton Movement Writing.

I appreciate your support for this idea. I believe there is a SW project, if I remember correctly, a project in Germany for research, using MovementWriting and also SignWriting…at a University at Bayreuth, Germany…." ISWA in Multimodal Transcripts" ...

And writing Group Dances in DanceWriting, was written from the beginning of the system, on separate 5-lined staffs…

I never forgot our first experience writing a ballet section of Sleeping Beauty ballet called “The Rose Adagio” where 5 male dancers wait in line to dance with the female dancer, and she takes her time moving from one male dancer to the next, each one waiting patiently on their own individual 5-lined staff under the music ;-)

But the writing of the Mano gesture is unique and places two actors on the SAME staff, so thank you for writing it this way.

For those who celebrate at this time of year, I want to wish you all a blessed holiday and celebration of Spring.

In the past, we wrote Easter Cards in SignWriting and all of them are lovely!

The older cards are still located here:

SignWriting Easter Cards
https://www.signwriting.org/cards/

Val ;-)

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> On Apr 11, 2022, at 7:10 AM, Ms. AnnaGrace <msannagrace20 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Hi Sutthikhun,
> 
> Last December you shared the poster about handwashing in Sutton MovementWriting. I was blown away! 
> 
> I think that anyone could learn Sutton MovementWriting to depict body language, gestures, physical action, etc. It doesn't have to be restricted to sign language or dancing. Your posters on the Mano gesture and handwashing exemplify the resourcefulness of SMW which can transmit a message more fully than written spoken language. (By the way, I love your new poster on the Mano gesture! What a beautiful painting, too.)
> 
> Like the current use of musical notations on music sheets and mathematics, Sutton MovementWriting can be understood internationally in spite of the differences in spoken languages. Clearly, these symbols are not just for deaf people or dancers. I believe anyone can use it for many other purposes as well. As it is happening already, these symbols are being used internationally. It is up to us to continue the spread and to maintain these symbols by teaching and using them.
> 
> I hope you will make more posters. Please continue sharing them with us here on the SW list!
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> Thanks,
> AnnaGrace
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> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 9:39 AM Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <suttikunep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Valerie and everyone, 
> 
> I'm not sure if MovementWriting (MW), including SignWriting and DanceWriting (DW), enables writing symbols for human interaction on a regular basis. As far as I know, SW is used for writing sign language from the expressive viewpoint of a single signer, and DW can be used for writing solo and group dances from the receptive viewpoint, but I haven't seen writing for interpersonal interactions like person-to-person touching. So I intended to try writing MW in a different way, and I believe that in the future, SW, DW, and other kinds of MW will also be used to write physical interactions between people.
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> Sutthikhun
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> On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 10:40, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> April 10, 2022
> 
> What a fascinating position to write, Sutthikhun. Thank you for writing this and posting it.
> 
> At one point, there were active SignWriters in the Philippines, writing Filipino Sign Language. They added to the SignPuddle dictionary:
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> SignPuddle Dictionary Philippines
> https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=72
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> and there is more information here about them:
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> SignWriting in the Philippines
> https://www.signwriting.org/philippines/
> 
> But it has been many years…
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> It would be fun to reconnect...
> 
> Val ;-)
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>> On Apr 10, 2022, at 7:07 PM, Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <suttikunep at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Hello SW List members, 
>> 
>> Any Filipino members here? I've just done a MovementWriting work about a Filipino hand gesture, Mano or Pagmamano, which is used to perform as a sign of respect to elders and as a way of requesting a blessing from the elder.
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>> <MW_others.png>
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>> And how about your cultural hand gestures? Share them with us in MovementWriting! 😉
>> 
>> Sutthikhun
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