<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">SignWriting List</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR></FONT><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Cherie from Georgia wrote:</FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Which of these would be more correct (or did I mess up already?::smile::)? Its a name sign... </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Cherie, Charles and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>Of course you did not mess up, Cherie...Quite the contrary! I think you wrote the sign very well...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And thanks to Charles for your message...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have you seen this writing rule on the web, Cherie?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Always Write the Position of Contact</DIV><DIV><A href="http://signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html">http://signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>See the attached diagram. Following the rule above, the first writing that you did is more correct, because it tells the reader where both contacts occur...no guessing!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is however, one other way to write the sign, and I have attached it to this message. Because we write down in vertical columns a lot, placing the two positions vertically is also acceptable...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Since this is a Sign-Name, you can ask the person how they feel about writing it horizontally or vertically...Is it your Name Sign? ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:F62576A4-7579-4761-9AAB-A9D51ADEEA1E@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>