<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<BR><DIV>August 26, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:<DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Today I wrote my version of how to write the letter Z (one version) of the Czech manual alphabet with two hands. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The thicker arm line is an indicator for being close to the body</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>----------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Everyone, and Stefan!</DIV><DIV>Many thanks for the illustration of the Czech fingerspelling for the letter Z. Your life-like illustration of the arms is really excellent!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The thicker arm line means the arm that is closest to the reader, in both Expressive and Receptive views.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In the Expressive View, the reader is sitting behind the signer and seeing through the signer's body. So the arm that is closest to the reader is also closest to the signer's chest...So what you say above, Stefan is true.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But in the Receptive View, the reader is facing the signer. So the thicker arm line is the one closest to the reader...namely the one that is seen in front of the other...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here is an illustration..I have added the Receptive view at the bottom...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:3EC62091-D08E-4E04-A43A-E071E6AB302B@local"></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>