<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>March 4, 2008</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div>On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Adam Frost wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">It would be under the 5 hand shape catagory because all of the fingers are "active" or in use. <br>Adam</blockquote></span></blockquote></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:20 PM, petercdehaas wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">Wondering if you can tell me where to find the hand shape for the beginning of the sign 'information'? It is the closed hands.<br>Thanks for your help.<br>Peter DeHaas</blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi Peter and Adam!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thank you for this question. And thanks Adam...exactly correct...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We call the handshape that starts this sign for INFORMATION, the Angle Handshape:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As Adam says, the Angle Handshape is the last one under the 5 hand (see attached diagrams):</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><img height="154" width="268" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:FD85440B-A407-44D1-857C-0F6421567340"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><img height="568" width="643" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3D5319DD-4776-4D5C-9B71-5A9C80E209A5"></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Val ;-)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Valerie Sutton</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 240); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><a href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">1. 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