<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>October 27, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Kasterlinden Bilinguaal wrote:</DIV><DIV>Hello Val, try to beat you to it ;) How about this? The arrow is shorter...is there a way to show the hand does not leave the left one but stays still inside the left hand?....greetings Kathleen</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="background-color:"><DIV class="RTE"></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="background-color:"><DIV class="RTE"></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV>-----------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Kathleen -</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ha! it was fun that you beat me to it! ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your writing is the first one in the Flemish SignPuddle, and it is fine....I also added my second version there too...see attached...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The second version is a different style of writing, based on the way we have written the sign for Spring in ASL over many years. The 5-Hand is a little easier symbol for people to read, and we show the Position of Contact at the end of the sign, with a Grasping-Inbetween symbol that shows that the two hands are really holding at the end...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sometimes a movement can be written several ways..(.just like English: the words BE and BEE sound the same, but written differently)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:74B310D3-8135-4117-BA6A-25FFDCBEF25A@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>