<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>December 15, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Philippe in Iowa, USA, wrote:<SPAN style=""></SPAN><DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I noticed the arrow seems not right since I don’t move my hand down for English. I move my hand toward to myself. The first English spelling with correct arrow symbol is correct. Make sense?</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hi Philip!<DIV>Great to get your feedback. Yes. You agree with our Deaf DAC members...they wrote the first two signs in the attached diagram...the second sign is another variation...it shows the right hand moving down twice onto the left hand...I have seen that variation in some parts of the US...but you are right that the first one seems to be the most commonly used...moving back towards the chest</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cherie comes from Georgia...maybe in Georgia they move down with both hands? smile...There are different ways that signs are signed...but usually one writing starts to become the standard way to write the sign...For right now, we are writing different variations and placing them in the SignPuddle...that way we can discuss the different variations easily on the SignWriting List...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have you ever seen the second variation?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:DBDDC489-6FD7-45CF-B10E-2ABD122CFE45@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>