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Originally Posted by PYRef
I disagree. It's obvious from this discussion that if you use the traveling signal, everyone won't know what you've called, because there is no way to "travel" during a throw-in.
Whether the official misinterpreted the rules or not won't be known, but the proper mechanic tells everyone it was a throw-in violation, whatever it may be.
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So the traveling signal cannot possibly communicate anything other than a traveling violation? At all? Ever? To anyone? I think you're vastly overstating your opinion on this one.
And as for the proper mechanic, what does it really communicate? Referees are the only ones that know there is such a thing as the generic, but somewhat adequate Signal 26. Nobody who sees it is going to say to himself, "Self, that's an artfully executed signal denoting 'free throw, designated spot, or other violation.'" To everybody else it's just pointing in the general direction of what went wrong and hoping those you're trying to communicate to can properly infer what went wrong from seeing where you're pointing. It's not entirely useless. But it's not great either.
Let me give you something to mull over. What if the Fed changed the caption of Signal 19 to read: Traveling or designated spot violation? Hmmm, all of a sudden people here would start to say things like, "The big dogs have been doing it for years." and, "that really makes more sense." or just plain, "okay, whatever."