[Sw-l] Between floor and wall arm rotation

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 8, 2022

Thank you Anna Grace for mentioning this book… 

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

Axial Movements, which include Rotation Symbols and Wrist Flexing, are described in Chapter 8, pages 141 - 150.

And your understanding that you wrote below is correct. In Rotation Symbols, the forearm is the axis, that remains in one place. The forearm doesn't travel. The only movement is the rotation or twist.

Here are some examples:








> On Feb 7, 2022, at 8:01 PM, AnnaGrace Greenfield <msannagrace20 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Regardless of the angle of the line through the arrows, my understanding about these arrows is that they rotate without moving the forearms. (See under "Axial Movement" in the SignWriting textbook.)
> Therefore, the signwriting in the video does not accurately depict the sign in the video.
> 
> That's my take on it.
> 
> -- AnnaGrace


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