<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>June 3, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><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="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">people say that DGS includes almost 30 handshapes but several of the other handshapes we use to write in SW are not to be found among this set either. So – hm – no it is not an officially handshape nevertheless we use it for special reasons ... smile<br></span></font></div></span></blockquote><br><br></div><div>Hi Stefan!</div><div>OK. I will be happy to add that handshape...I am sure there are more than 30 handshapes in DGS...perhaps not linguistically important (smile) but all signed languages I have seen seem to have a lot of variations of handshapes...</div><div><br></div><div>The handshape is a hard one...how have you been writing it in SignWriting? I have my attempts but they look weird, since the handshape itself is a bit unusual!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="178" width="122" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:32FEB3E2-C28C-43A9-A26C-4643AE929523"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Very hard to do by the way...I personally cannot do it ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div></div></body></html>