<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>August 18, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 18, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Attached you find my two spellings – ( at least my guess what the movement may look like?)</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Stefan, Nana and Everyone -</DIV><DIV>Both of these SignSpellings are correct for the letter J in the US...People here sign it differently. The June to the left does the movement with the forearm parallel to the floor. The June to the right keeps the forearm parallel to the wall...upright...and the curve follows the baby finger moving toward the front wall and side left...but the arm remains in one place...Think of black paint on your baby finger...it is painting a curve in space...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As far as deciding on a standard way of writing it...the one on the left is more standard here...but since Nana chose the movement on the right, it is ok by me since it describes one style of signing...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:C1E1B6D1-054F-4072-A692-92D811EFBEF1@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>