<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Exactly, it's called the Parkhurst rule. The thumb really DOES move. <div><br></div><div>Charles Butler</div><div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 9/29/11, Stefan Wöhrmann <i><stefanwoehrmann@GOOGLEMAIL.COM></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann@GOOGLEMAIL.COM><br>Subject: Bent - 5  hand<br>To: SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br>Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 4:43 PM<br><br><div id="yiv879690471">


 
 

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<p class="yiv879690471MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Hi Valerie, </span></font></p> 

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<p class="yiv879690471MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="
font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">looking at old hand shape designs I noticed that there
have been made some changes in the actual version. I prefer very much the “original”
as printed in your “Lessons in SignWriting” page 44 – showing
thumb and fingers at opposite directions if the fingers are bent at the Middle
Joint – as it can be seen in the right symbol looking at the back of the
hand. </span></font></p> 

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