<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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; "><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"> ?</div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>-------------</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Attached is the way I personally would write SOMETIMES...of course there are other ways to write it too...</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><img height="137" width="160" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C952A2EE-8D7E-415A-BDA0-5911ECD1F59D"><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Not all rotations are used in writing signs in ASL, but they are all available to you, if they are needed.</div><div><br></div><div>The fingers pointing directly side is quite rare, you are right. Especially with the palm up! I cannot think of a sign with that handshape...pointing side....but it is used in writing role shifting, when you are signing to someone who is standing on one side of the room...</div><div><br></div><div>There are more signs that point forward, or to the diagonal...like HAPPEN or COME...</div><div><br></div><div><img height="141" width="167" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:77A19BA7-5973-495C-B3DB-5A3C5A6AB9A1"></div></div></div></body></html>