<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 13, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Stuart Thiessen wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">That is true. The fingertips don't lose contact at all. That was what I meant by a hinge movement, but my words were probably not clear.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>OK. Thanks for telling us. This is a hard sign, so it was good that you asked. First, I am going to delete the first sign you wrote from the ASL dictionary...it is attached...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just for your general information, the Movement Arrows in this first writing show traveling motion. The fingertips do not always touch. The hands start together, but then the two hands really move away from each other, making an arc on each side, and ending up touching at the end...so that sign probably doesn't exist in ASL?...smile...more next message...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:35F974F2-0C75-461C-99CA-D42065669575@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>