<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>August 7, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On Jul 20, 2005, at 12:37 AM, eyasu tamene wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style=""><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">Dearest Val. </FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV style=""><STRONG style=""></STRONG><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">The first symbol looks impressive. I think the way it is written is receptive not expressive way. Do they have a difference? When I see some of the ASL manuals they are presented in similar way. Would you brief me in Expressive and Receptive ways?</FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV style=""><STRONG style=""></STRONG><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">Eyasu </FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>---------------------------<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Eyasu and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>I am going to learn how to teach Receptive and Expressive again. I hope I can help you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And I want to thank you for your question...I am happy you asked!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have you seen your new web page?...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignWriting in Ethiopia</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/ethiopia">http://www.SignWriting.org/ethiopia</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you click on Number 1 on that page, you will get:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ethiopian Manual Alphabet</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/ethiopia/ethiopia01.html">http://www.signwriting.org/ethiopia/ethiopia01.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>All of those pictures on that page, are Receptive. The person is facing us, and showing their own hands...In the next message, I will try to show you the Expressive of the same thing...and then later, how we write the difference in SignWriting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Please tell me, by writing an email message, that you are following me...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I appreciate that, because it is hard for me to know if you have read my messages or not...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>