
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>March 21, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Nana Dumitra in the Philippines wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">I have a question concerning the meaning and use of some of the symbols – see the attached screen capture (I finally figured out how to do <SPAN class="GramE">that </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Wingdings"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-char-type:symbol; mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">): </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">I <SPAN class="GramE">think,</SPAN> I understand the symbols in the 1<SUP>st</SUP> and 3<SUP>rd</SUP> column: 1<SUP>st</SUP> column being movement going on at the same time (like in the recently discussed ASL sign for “possible”) and 3<SUP>rd</SUP> column being alternate movement (like in riding a bike). But what are the meanings of the other symbols?</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Nana!</DIV><DIV>I am happy to see your screen capture...well done!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>First, here is some general information about some of those symbols...continued next message...</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:43079F41-8D9D-4B1C-B4EA-39DDC218C26F@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>