I would agree with something like that Adam as the movement from closed hand to open hand is specific and happens all over the hand and would be a neat thing to write.<br><br>Charles<br><br><br><b><i>Adam Frost <adam@frostvillage.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> When I brought up the scissor symbol, I didn't mean by itself. I meant like this. (or something like it.)<br><br>Adam<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charles Butler</b> < <a href="mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com">chazzer3332000@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;">Well, just because it's a rule doesn't mean it shouldn't be revisited from time to time to see if a more "elegant" solution would present itself. <br><span
class="sg"><br>Charles</span><span class="q"><br><br><b><i>Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sutton@signwriting.org </a>></i></b> wrote:</span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div><span class="e" id="q_1142de93cc65224c_4"> SignWriting List<br>August 3, 2007<br><br>On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Charles Butler wrote: <br>> The only problem I have with this is that it looks and feels like <br>> fingerspelling and that the hand is traveling to each shape at <br>> first glance. Would stacking them work better?<br><br>Of course I can see how you might think that, but there was a rule <br>established on traveling and non-traveling fingerspelling years <br>ago...and it would apply to Flash The Light as well...<br><br>Fingerspelling is assumed to be in one place, if there is not an <br>arrow stating that
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