<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>January 6, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Cherie from Georgia wrote:</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; "><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">for example, on this for 'come' from the SignPuddle, I want to write it like this...</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">Because my wrists flex as the two handshapes move forward. I am having trouble reading SW too, possibly because of the same thing... Any suggestions?</SPAN></FONT><BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Ha! Oh that has to do with different ways to sign the same sign...plus they might even be different signs...the first one is showing a steady movement back and straight towards the chest and the second one has the wrist movement...both are written correctly for the style of signing they are trying to write...So of course there is the issue of not finding the exact sign you need in SignPuddle, so just add your version...Community SignPuddles are not standardized dictionaries...people are writing what they know and we do sign differently around the country, plus in different circumstances, you might need the other sign...imagine if a person was walking up to you...they would come to you but in a straight line, maybe one handed? So that needs to be added to the SignPuddle too...and maybe that would not use the wrist? So both versions are good additions to SignPuddle online...Glad to see you know the wrist symbols! you are doing well, Cherie... Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:91C3AF13-25AE-4E79-9837-414BEE397946@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>