<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The palm faces in to the body (with no change), but the fingertips rotate from horizontal to pointing down... the movement, as I watch my arm signing it, is entirely in the forearm. <br><br>cherie<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Valerie Sutton <signwriting@MAC.COM><br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 6:58:01 PM<br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] wrist flex versus rotation<br><br><div>On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Cherie Wren wrote:<br><br>> When I write the sign YES, there is a palm facing change, but it is <br>> a wrist flex. Initially my palm is facing out,
then my wrist bends <br>> and my palm is now facing down, then repeat. CAN can be signed <br>> with just a wrist flex, although you will more often see it with a <br>> larger downward movement, but there is palm facing change. When I <br>> sign this sign, which I gloss as WOW, the angle of the wrist is not <br>> changing, it is at roughly a 90 degree angle to the forearm, that <br>> angle stays roughly the same throughout. I think of (thought of) a <br>> wrist flex as a change in that angle between hand and forearm...A <br>> rotation I saw as that angle staying the same, but the forearm <br>> twisting.<br>><br>> cherie<br><br><br>Yes, that is correct. The sign for YES can be thought of as the back <br>of the hand palm facing change, but it is a Wrist Flex none-the- <br>less...you
are right about that. So what i said before is not always <br>true either!<br><br>For me, these symbols are so easy that I obviously have trouble <br>explaining them.<br><br>And of course CAN can be a Wrist Flex as well. But both those signs <br>do not Rotate at the forearm, as you said above...<br><br>What are the palm facings of the beginning and ending position of the <br>sign we were discussing from Cat in the Hat 2? I had seen that as a <br>Wrist Flex, but if you feel it is a rotation, then what palm facing <br>starts and what palm facing finishes?<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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