<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">SignWriting List</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">August 11, 2005</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Shane Ó hEorpa from Northern Ireland wrote:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT><DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">That’s my sign for </FONT><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Tokyo</FONT></ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> – a bit of a deviation u may notice!</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hello Shane and Midori!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">THANK YOU, Shane, for posting some SignWriting. You have made me very very happy!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">And now I want to ask you both...Which sign is more accurate? The one on the left, is writing movement twice up-diagonally, but the emphasis is on the up-up. The sign on the right is writing the same movement, but instead the emphasis is even...up-down-up...</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Left sign...up-up</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Right sign...up-down-up</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A different feeling to the movement...I would actually pronounce (produce) them differently...</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:2BD51233-8CB5-4DA5-9DFB-39E1273B6C22@local"></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; "></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>