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<P>Hello Val, </P>
<P>just trying something out here. What do you think about this? I just get the feeling with the other sign that the hand goes through the left one. Maybe I'm wrong.</P>
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<P>Greetings Kathleen</P>
<P>ps: Val, I understand the rules you send me, thanks for taking the time to teach me (and the rest) ;)<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Valerie Sutton" <sutton@signwriting.org></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [sw-l] Belgium: Lessons in Spelling</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:59:13 -0700</I><BR>>SignWriting List<BR>>October 28, 2005<BR>><BR>>>On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Kasterlinden Bilinguaal wrote:<BR>>>So you prefer the 5 handshape.. because the way we actually sign it <BR>>> is not with the 5 handshape but the hand is a little more closed. <BR>>> So sometimes you take different handshapes considering what you <BR>>>think people will read easier? I'm not sure about the contact <BR>>>symbol. The way I sign it, the right hand starts on top of the left
<BR>>> hand and closes into the C-shape. But the C-shape does not grasp <BR>>>the right hand..<BR>><BR>>Hello Kathleen and Everyone!<BR>>That is fine about the 5 Hand being more closed, and the Inbetween <BR>>symbol is Touch and not Grasp...I just re-did it in your SignPuddle <BR>>to correct those two things...see attached...Thanks for telling me <BR>>;-)<BR>><BR>>But my real point, which I didn't explain well, is that we have a <BR>>Spelling Rule:<BR>><BR>>Write the Position of Contact<BR>>http://signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html<BR>><BR>>And applying that rule, the end position, which shows the two hands <BR>>contacting each other, would be written in this case, because the <BR>>meaning of the sign is held in the way the two hands relate
to each <BR>>other. I was very fortunate to work with a team of 10 Deaf adults <BR>>back in the 1990's, and we found over time, that people read signs <BR>>better when they see the contacted position written as close to real <BR>> life as possible...so I wanted to share this with you...From a <BR>>foreigner's perspective, technically the dot alone, at the end of an <BR>> arrow, does not assume that the fingers are coming together <BR>>(although they probably are in European signed <BR>>languages)...Technically, the dot just means any kind of closing, <BR>>and you could be only partially closing...so there is more <BR>>guessing, for the reader, when the Position of Contact is not <BR>>written...Thank you for all your hard work...smile...<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>
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