AW: [sw-l] ASL Sign for Chemotherapy?

[Bill Reese]

Thanks, Stefan.  I like your b) choice.
Could it also be written this way - to indicate that it's just below the 
shoulder?

Bill

Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hi Bill,
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> attached you find my suggestion how to write the sign as I understand 
> your description.
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> There are always several different options ... smile - and it depends 
> on how detailed the spelling is needed.
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> Looking at your spelling - the palm is down not up - so this way it is 
> difficult for the pinky to touch the breast.
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> All the best
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> Stefan ;-)
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> Von: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu 
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von Bill Reese
> Gesendet: Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 15:12
> An: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Betreff: [sw-l] ASL Sign for Chemotherapy?
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> A member of my late-deafened support group was trying to describe a 
> sign he had just learned for "chemo" (chemotherapy).   He described it 
> this way:
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>"Open four hand, palm up, tap pinky to the chest where a port
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>would be - just below the shoulder joint, in the meat of the
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>pectoral muscle"
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> That's a little ambiguous to me as I don't know which hand or 
> shoulder, if the fingers are splayed or if the little finger touches 
> once or twice.  If I take it to be the right hand's little finger 
> touching the chest just below the right shoulder, palm up, thumb 
> tucked, fingers splayed, touching just once, would this be correct?
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> Bill
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