[sw-l] FLASH-THE-LIGHT

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 3, 2007

On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Charles Butler wrote:
> The only problem I have with this is that it looks and feels like  
> fingerspelling and that the hand is traveling to each shape at  
> first glance.  Would stacking them work better?

Of course I can see how you might think that, but there was a rule  
established on traveling and non-traveling fingerspelling years  
ago...and it would apply to Flash The Light as well...

Fingerspelling is assumed to be in one place, if there is not an  
arrow stating that it is traveling. And it is the same for the sign  
for Flash-The-Light, if the handshapes are written in a row left to  
right, or in a vertical row, either way, if there is no arrow stating  
that it is really traveling, then it assumed that it does not travel.  
It stays in one place and the handshapes change.

If there is no traveling arm-arrow, there is no traveling arm  
movement...

Here is an example of traveling and not-traveling  
fingerspelling...see four examples in the one attached diagram...



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