<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:31 PM, 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: 16px; 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; ">That is the reason Valerie that I am so interested in the  first handwritten documents – .. smile ... just to compare the way other handwriters tried to find their way to write circular movements, hands parallel to the floor, .... smile<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><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; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Too bad we were writing more by hand back when we did not have scanners and other equipment, let alone computers, to capture the handwritten documents...most of the handwriting never got saved...but here are some older handwritten documents which I scanned later, and placed on the web...SignWriting improved because of this kind of daily writing...and that is totally normal and natural for all writing systems...I am very proud of that fact, that we all were flexible enough to let the experience of writing help us learn what worked well ...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>here are some web pages to visit...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/about/prepare/prep01.html">http://www.signwriting.org/about/prepare/prep01.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand1.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand1.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand2.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand2.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand3.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand3.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand4.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand4.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand5.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand5.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand6.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand6.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand7.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/cursive/byhand7.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/hist008.html">http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/hist008.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/deafchild/index.html">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/deafchild/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/deafchild/deafchild01.html">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/teachers/deafchild/deafchild01.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>