<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>January 26, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 25, 2008, at 6:37 AM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><strong><font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">......<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">I create a story of the plane. I wrote #1 (see file attachment). I mean that the knuckle joint opens. But, Deaf kids didn't agree with a Deaf teacher. They believed that they showed her #2 (see file attachment) because this symbol means "opened knuckle joint". <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "> Val or everyone, I would like to know what do you choose #1 or # 2? Best regards, André</span></font></span></font></strong></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Hello Andre and Everyone!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thank you for your question. I took a picture of your diagram and then wrote on it myself....so please see the attached diagram....</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>When the point of the arrowhead points towards the fingers, it means that the fingers CLOSE towards each other....they close and finish in the touching position.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>When the point of the arrow points away from the fingers, then it means that the fingers open... see attached diagram:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><img height="728" width="715" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D76E1863-8918-43BD-900A-86E9F05DA7A3"></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>