[Sw-l] Dynamics and their meaning

[Stephen Slevinski]

Hi Uta,

I'm making a new thread for this discussion and opening it up to the group.

Category 3 of the ISWA 2010 is the dynamics.
Here is the text used to describe this category.

'Dynamics Symbols are used to give the "feeling" or "tempo" to movement. 
They provide emphasis on a movement or expression, and combined with 
Punctuation Symbols become the equivalent to Exclamation Points. The 
Tension Symbol, combined with Contact Symbols, provides the feeling of 
"pressure", and combined with facial expressions can place emphasis or 
added feeling to an expression. Timing symbols are used to show 
alternating or simultaneous movement.'



The "Tense" symbol adds a feeling to the sign.

The whole sign would need to be considered to understand if the hand 
stops after movement, or if the hand is moved under tension, or if the 
hand doesn't move.

-Steve

On 1/26/22 11:51 PM, Uta Meißner wrote:
> To the sign ~
>
> I know that ~ has several meanings:
>
> - Hand stops after movement
> - Hand is moved under tension
> - Hand doesn't move
>
> And I don't like
>
> I don't like this fact because it's important because of the sign 
> search that each symbol has only one meaning. Therefore we decided to 
> choose the 3rd meaning because that seems to us to be the most 
> important. For 2-hand. There are 5 properties. One of them is a 
> resting hand. Since the information is unimportant for own but right 
> hand, we have agreed that symbol ~  property "resting recessive hand" 
> to order.
>
> So, now you know my motivation for why we solved it this way.
> My feeling tells me it's not a good way to make our own rules.
>
>
> Therefore, take a step back:
> Why does a symbol have multiple meanings? What are the advantages?
>
> Best regards
> Uta
>

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