Dr Bill Vicars Lifeprint com Classifiers All classifiers

Classifiers

All classifiers are signs.

Not all signs are classifiers.

Actually most signs are not classifiers.

Many signs started as classifiers and evolved into regular signs.

Consider: CL: 1

CL: 1 is used to show…

Long, skinny objects such as:

A person

sticks, pencils

The perimeter of 2 - dimensional objects:

A board, sign, poster, or plot of land

Shapes: circle, diamond, etc.

Trajectory paths and connections …

one way streets, two way streets

Intersections

A ball’s path through air

a snake moving across a surface

Movement of tears

Crawling of a caterpillar

Tunneling of a worm

The sign MEET isn’t a classifier

The sign: “run into, fall over”

does use the CL: 1 classifier

The sign CATERPILLAR is not a classifier

Showing how a caterpillar is moving

… uses a classifier

The sign BOARD is not a classifier

Showing that a board is large …

… uses a classifier

The sign WORM is not a classifier

Showing specific worm movement

… uses a classifier

The sign for SPIT is not a classifier

Showing the trajectory of spit

… uses a classifier

The sign for INTER SECTION

… is not a classifier

Showing specific intersections

… uses a classifier

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