<DIV>For what it's worth.</DIV>
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<DIV>From these three choices, only the 3rd would I sign correctly. I would not read the first one correctly at all, as my automatic reaction would be to see the thumb as up, not pointed toward me.</DIV>
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<DIV>Charles</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>September 28, 2005<BR><BR>On Sep 28, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:<BR>> The finger groups are based on the ASL numbers 1 thru 10. Sign <BR>> languages are constantly evolving. I think there is a reason why <BR>> the 10 handshape in ASL has the thumb up, rather than to the side. <BR>> I'm not sure if that reason is valid for the alphabet, but this new <BR>> way feels weird and confusing.<BR><BR>Hello Everyone!<BR>Wow. Well. I was planning to help Lucyna today to write her signs and <BR>I don't think it is confusing personally.<BR><BR>And in the past, people have always complained about the old symbol, <BR>and Steve Parkhurst and Stefan in Germany have changed the symbol in <BR>their own books. So I was trying to help everyone, that is all. As <BR>you can see by the attached, Stefan and Steve are using the middle <BR>symbol. But our!
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symbol uses the first one. No one seems to like <BR>the first one, and trying to teach it has been sooo hard...everyone <BR>says the first one is confusing. But that is the way it was a month <BR>ago...<BR><BR>Do you like the first one, Steve?...<BR><BR>BUT...I am happy to go back to the old and then place the new as a <BR>second variation and people can choose from either? I can't please <BR>everyone, that is obvious!<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>