<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><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Philippe from Iowa 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 did ask someone here and we never see the second variation (going down).</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Philippe and Cherie!</DIV><DIV>I understand. And I appreciate you telling us, Philippe. Those first two signs were written by three Deaf staff members...all from different parts of the country...Kathy Say is from Arizona, Bonita Ewan was from Minnesota and Alaska I believe, and Butch Zein from Texas...they were the three that wrote the signs that are in the SignWriter Computer Program dictionary, which were then transferred over into the ASL SignPuddle later...and they always discussed each sign together and oftentimes found that they had different variations of signs...so I am not surprised that you may not know every variation they chose, but I believe those two variations do exist somewhere in the US...smile...Wonderful to get your feedback and keep informing us...I bet you have some signs unique to Iowa too! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:8DF04A51-CF85-48D8-8320-D2FA245E67A3@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>