<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;">I think so... I have never done much with the from-the-top view...<br><br>cherie<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Adam Frost <adam@frostvillage.com><br>To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 8:39:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] wrist flex versus rotation<br><br>This would be the top view, am I right?<br><br>Adam<img alt=""><img alt=""><span class="attribute-value">
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<br></span></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cherie Wren</b> <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:cwterp@yahoo.com">cwterp@yahoo.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;">
<div><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;"><span class="q">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Valerie Sutton <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM">
signwriting@MAC.COM</a>><br></span><div><span class="e" id="q_1139dfcf103537cd_2">To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
</a><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></span></div></div><span class="ad"><br></span></div></div><span class="ad"><br>
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