<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 3, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Antony Daamen wrote:<DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><TABLE id="INCREDIMAINTABLE" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD id="INCREDITEXTREGION" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; cursor: auto; padding-top: 0px; " valign="top" width="100%"><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Thanks for the explanation of the line. me just learning, it looked like it was taken from above. The hands are palm-down, etc . However, what is the view here. as if I sign it, or I watch a person signing it?</SPAN></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Everyone, Stefan, and Antony -</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for this question, Antony....When you read SignWriting, it is always from your own point of view (Expressive View). You are looking at your own hands while signing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, within the Expressive View, there are several ways to see your hands. You can see them from the Front View or the Top View, depending on the sign. And some signs have a mixture of views...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So let's read the first sign in Stefan's signs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>a. The starting 8-hands are parallel to the front wall. You are seeing the beginning hands from the Front View. They are parallel to your chest. They move forward. The ending hands are parallel to the floor in a 5 hand, so they are seen from the Top View...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Does this help, Antony? - Try to read the others on your own...you can see that each sign is slightly different...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you for these excellent examples, Stefan!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I do not know the sign, so I have no idea which one would be best, so maybe all four spellings should be in our dictionaries?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></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:3C2E12D9-3D84-4DF4-8D08-80C6C4C03F37@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>