<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>SignWriting List</DIV><DIV>June 1, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:<DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><FONT size="2">Val, the thumb is not forward, it touches the chin and the top of the palm is parallel to the wall (the fingers to the ceiling). Then the hand moves in a curve forward-down, finishing with the thumb up, not touching the chest.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Great. We are communicating well. I wonder if the handshape in the beginning is the same handshape at the end, except that the thumb is touching the chin in the beginning? If so, then it should be the same handshape symbol...not two different handshape symbols...because at the moment, these are two separate handshapes. The first one has the thumb tight against the other fingers. But the second handshape in your writing, has the thumb extended straight out and not tight against the other fingers...If you want the thumb extended straight out in both positions, try writing the sign with the same handshape...smile...I would choose the second handshape and place that at the beginning too...what do you think?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:3AB9A189-59CD-4D64-A7FA-4D693315F639@local"></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>