<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 29, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 29, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Natasha Escalada-Westland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; 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 align="left">So the handshape below would pretty much have to occur in the space right in front of your face...? Any lower and it would be written as a side-view, no? Again, thanks everybody for clarification. It helps to know that some shapes may or may not be commonly used.</div> <br><div align="left"><img src="http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/symbol.php?sss=01-01-001-01-01-03&color=000000"><br><br>Natasha Escalada-Westland, M.Ed. (D/HH), Macromedia Cert.<br>Westland Progeny,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://www.westlandprogeny.com/" target="_blank">www.westlandprogeny.com</a><br><a href="http://www.westlandasl.com/" target="_blank">www.westlandasl.com</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-------------</div><div><br></div><div>No. That is incorrect. The handshape on the "white palm plane" can be at ANY height, and still be a white palm.</div><div><br></div><div>If the hand is parallel to the Front Wall, and the back of the hand is towards the Front Wall, and the palm of the hand is away from the Front Wall, no matter what the height, it is a white palm:</div><div><br></div><div>The white palm can be anywhere:</div><div><br></div><div><img height="133" width="131" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C53EF653-F28D-425F-BCA4-C4C48A6B3F9F"></div></body></html>