2008/7/25 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, I have been told that the top part of the sign can be removed as this combination of signs is rare and is likely to be understood to be word. The top part indicates movement and position. So for a big image, it can be the complete sign and for a small ball the subset suffices.
The other question... I understand there's a degree of mutual intelligibility between various sign languages, usually at the simpler end of things, but varying heavily by language and various factors; and that signwriting can (at least in theory) represent pretty much any sign language. Is this an ASL-specific sign, or would it be understood by, say, an NZSL or BSL reader?
We probably want to make sure we don't accidentally put up the symbol for "lies" in another sign language ;-)