<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 28, 2008</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 28, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Natasha Escalada-Westland 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 class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Thank you for all your replies! I really like the animations. They are helpful. Yet, after reading and looking at everything, I am still not completely sure. After reading Adam's post, perhaps now my question is, how are all these symbols different? Matching the symbols with whole signs has been very helpful to me in the past. I will try to describe the hand position to confirm if I understand.<br> <br><div align="left"><img src="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/symbol.php?sss=01-01-001-01-04-03&color=000000" atl="01-01-001-01-04-03"> This hand would be palm up, occurring in the lower portion of my sign space, the way I might sign "sometimes"</div> <br><div align="left"><img src="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/symbol.php?sss=01-01-001-01-01-03&color=000000" atl="01-01-001-01-01-03"> ?<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>--------------<br><br></div><div>Hi Natasha!</div><div>The white palm, without a break in the finger, means that the palm of the hand is facing your chest...The back of the hand is away from your body. The hand is parallel to the Front Wall. All of these palm facings have 8 rotations. Not all of the 8 rotations are used in writing signs you know. But they are positions that exist in the writing system in general.</div><div><br></div><div>So you are not required to find a sign for each position...This is just showing you the basic theory behind the system...there are 8 rotations for most symbols, and a white palm means you are looking at the palm of your hand...</div><div><br></div><div>See attached...we can find signs for each of these symbols in a later message...I still haven't answered your last message!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="684" width="459" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:45CE784F-4420-44D0-AA96-8CF3C6B398A4"></div></div></body></html>