The only difference that I see between what Cherie is trying to write and the sign HAPPEN (other than the handshapes of course) is that in HAPPEN the wrist is not bent while in Cherie's sign it is. In fact, it would be the difference between HAPPEN and ARGUE. I just looked up the spelling of ARGUE and it has neither wrist flex nor forearm rotation. It is just down arrows. Is it possible that that is what should be written?
<br><br>Adam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Valerie Sutton</b> <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Rotation Symbols never existed in the beginning, because we just<br>wrote the beginning and ending positions...so there was no need for<br>Rotation Symbols. But when people wanted to shorten the writing of<br>signs I developed the Axial Symbols, basing everything on an Axis,
<br>called Axial Movement...which includes both Rotation Symbols and<br>Wrist Flexing.<br><br>In Rotations, the forearm is the Axis.<br><br>In Wrist Flexes, the wrist is cut by a line, which is the axis...so<br>the line does not represent the forearm...it is an imaginary line
<br>cutting the wrist...I was wrong before...<br><br>Rotations write Palm Facing changes, and Wrist Flexes write hand-<br>angle changes....<br><br>Here is a chart that might help...and there is one more coming and<br>then I must turn my computer off for the day. Val ;-)
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