<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 2, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Antony Daamen wrote:<DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; ">Lucina the black line it "the body" of the signer as seen from the top. </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; ">Stefan I notice that you draw the sign from the top? why that way? will readers of the sign realise it is from the top? Later I will practice more.</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>No Antony. That is a misunderstanding. I do not believe that Stefan was writing the shoulders in these signs. He was underlining nouns, I believe, for his Deaf children...They are not shoulders from the overhead view...Am I wrong, Stefan?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>None of these signs, in Stefan's example, needs to be seen from overhead...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:768C33FD-1A05-411F-9E7A-310224E7AE2D@local"></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>