<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">SignWriting List</SPAN></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">June 12, 2005</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">So, is it justified to use the strike symbol with the lines or the symbol without them will be proper for such cases?</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hello Lucyna and Everyone -</DIV><DIV>Thanks for this question. No. Do not use the Strike-Inbetween (the strike symbols with the two lines). Instead use two plain Strike symbols.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Strike-Inbetween symbol is rarely used. In fact, I can only remember using it in DanceWriting, when slapping between two legs, or striking the inside crease of the elbow, so it is between the forearm and the upper arm...so it means inside, between two things...In SignWriting, the In-between symbols are used mostly between fingers...and touching, rubbing, brushing or grasping between fingers are used sometimes, but striking between two fingers is pretty hard to do!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The sign for WORK in several signed languages looks a little like what you are trying to write, except that in ASL we are looking at the top of our hands, so the squares for the fists are dark...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here are some examples of the sign for WORK in ASL...Notice how we didn't use the Strike symbols...but instead just Touch...Why? Because some of our writers felt that the Strike should be kept for something a little more violent than just Touch-Touch...This was argued a lot...smile...as to what constitutes a strike and what a touch?...A Strike hurts a little I guess! Maybe we don't work as hard here...smile...I think it depends on when you are signing fast or when you are demonstrating a sign...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:6FDD2E14-2D7F-4090-B9D4-5D90C4570609@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>