[sw-l] Wrist circle

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 4, 2007

Hello Andre!
Thank you for this message ;-)

Andre from French-Canada writes:
> The Deaf teacher explained to me that all Deaf pupils are confused  
> regarding the wrist circle signs
>       Deaf pupils pointed out to the Deaf teacher that they know in  
> general that a down-up movement is parallel with the front wall.   
> It is written with double-stemmed arrows.  And a forward-back  
> movement is parallel to the floor.  It is written with single- 
> stemmed arrows.

Yes. That is correct. Here are the arrows you are referring to:


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>  It is interesting to me that all Deaf pupils failed to read a  
> wrist circle which is parallel with the front wall.  But, they did  
> not fail to read a wrist circle which is parallel to the floor.   
> The Deaf teacher was not successful to explain the difference  
> between a wrist circle (parallel wall plane) and a wrist circle  
> (parallel floor plane).

That is very interesting! Sounds like you are having excellent  
classes that are really discussing SignWriting in depth...That is  
great...and your Deaf students are very intelligent...

I have some illustrations that might help...see next message...

For the sake of new SignWriting List members, here are the Circle  
Symbols we are discussing (see attached)...our discussion continues  
next message...


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