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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ha Bill – of course
it could be written that way – and this has been one of my own deleted
variations ;-)) – you are the scribe – smile – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well on the other hand –
I personally would not prefer that – why ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Somehow the shoulder line
is like a barrier – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As a scribe I try to find
the Gestalt that looks like a easy to understand unit -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For the informed reader
it should be no problem but the uninformed reader will hesitate .. since the
gap between the pinky and the contact star is a little bit of a problem. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>But as I mentioned before
there are a lot of options to think of and future and your readers – and
you yourself will develop a feeling for the best three spellings (smile).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That is the reason to
create sometimes different variations in spelling which differ just from the
arrangement but not from the information regarding hand shape and all the other
parameters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Good luck <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stefan ;-)) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>Bill Reese<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Samstag, 4. Februar 2006
18:18<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: AW: [sw-l] ASL Sign
for Chemotherapy?</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks, Stefan. I like your b) choice. <br>
Could it also be written this way - to indicate that it's just below the
shoulder?<br>
<img width=90 height=66 id="_x0000_i1026"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01C629BB.BC40BBE0"><br>
Bill<br>
<br>
Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</xml><![endif]--></u1:SmartTagType>Hi Bill, <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>attached you find my
suggestion how to write the sign as I understand your description. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There are always several
different options ... smile – and it depends on how detailed the spelling
is needed. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Looking at your spelling
– the palm is down not up – so this way it is difficult for the
pinky to touch the breast. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All the best<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stefan ;-) <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> owner-<st1:PersonName u4:st="on"><a
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color:windowtext'>.edu</st1:PersonName> [<a href="mailto:owner">mailto:owner</a>-<st1:PersonName u4:st="on"><a
href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a></st1:PersonName>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>Bill Reese<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Samstag, 4. Februar 2006
15:12<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> <st1:PersonName u4:st="on"><a
href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a></st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> [sw-l] ASL Sign for
Chemotherapy?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>A member of my late-deafened support group was trying
to describe a sign he had just learned for "chemo"
(chemotherapy). He described it this way:<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<u1:p></u1:p><pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>"Open four hand, palm up, tap pinky to the chest where a port<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>would be - just below the shoulder joint, in the meat of the<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>pectoral muscle"<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>That's a little ambiguous to me as I don't know which
hand or shoulder, if the fingers are splayed or if the little finger touches
once or twice. If I take it to be the right hand's little finger touching
the chest just below the right shoulder, palm up, thumb tucked, fingers
splayed, touching just once, would this be correct?<br>
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Bill<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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