<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;">When I write the sign YES, there is a palm facing change, but it is a wrist flex. Initially my palm is facing out, then my wrist bends and my palm is now facing down, then repeat. CAN can be signed with just a wrist flex, although you will more often see it with a larger downward movement, but there is palm facing change. When I sign this sign, which I gloss as WOW, the angle of the wrist is not changing, it is at roughly a 90 degree angle to the forearm, that angle stays roughly the same throughout. I think of (thought of) a wrist flex as a change in that angle between hand and forearm...A rotation I saw as that angle staying the same, but the forearm twisting.
<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: List SignWriting <sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu><br>Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 3:44:55 PM<br>Subject: [sw-l] wrist flex versus rotation<br><br><div>SignWriting List<br>July 6, 2007<br><br>On Jul 6, 2007, at 12:17 PM, CWren@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:<br>> OK, this one confuses me. My forearms are aimed half way between <br>> straight forward and parallel with the chest, but feel more <br>> straight forward to me, The movement feels like it is in the <br>> forearm, not in the wrist, to me. How can I tell the difference?<br><br><br>OK. There is a clear difference.<br><br>1. A Rotation Symbol marks the change from one palm facing to another <br>palm facing.<br><br>2. A Flex Wrist Symbol does
NOT write the change of palm facing, but <br>instead it writes the change of the angle of the hand, when no change <br>of palm facing occurs.<br><br>In this sign (see attached), you still have white palms towards your <br>body no matter what the angle of the hand, so you are writing the <br>change of Angle:<br><br><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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