[Sw-l] Rules or not?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 9, 2022

Hello Josenilson!
It is great to read your message. Thank you for writing to the SignWriting List.

Yes, for me at least, I follow Writing Guidelines when writing sign languages.

For example, these two rules or guidelines mean a lot to me personally. I follow these everytime I write:

SignSpelling Rule 1: Write the Position of Contact
https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html

SignSpelling Rule 2: Every Sign Has A Center
https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less064.html

and it continues for many pages following on the web…

These guidelines can also be found at the end of the 

Lessons in SignWriting Textbook
https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf

We had long discussions early in 2022 about guidelines for writing movement arrows and I had planned to write up a report about our decisions that we made together and then I got so busy I didn't get to it. Maybe now is the time to get back into more discussions?

So what specific questions do you have?


Val ;-)

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> On Aug 9, 2022, at 7:30 PM, Josenilson da Silva Mendes <jsm88b at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi, SW-List!
> Here in Brazil, we are in a discussion about whether or not threre are rules for SW.
> 
> This page https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/ has spelling rules or not?
> 
>> Greetings
> 
> Josenilson Mendes


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