<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hello Valerie and everyone</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Studying on "Opening the knuckles from the hand, one finger at a time", found the following:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">"The fingers are extended, opening the hand one finger at a time, starting with the index and ending with the little finger. [...] Note: In some languages, opening or closing the hand one finger at a time Can start with the pinky or the index / thumb. In some cases it may be</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">contrastive and you will need to Specify Which finger starts the process "(Parkhurst & Parkhurst. <span style="font-style: italic;">A Cross-Linguistic
guide to SignWriting®</span>: a phonetic approach, 2008, p. 70)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">In Libras has several signs that this movement begins with the pinky finger. I thought to adopt the following convention: put the symbol "Opening the knuckles from the hand, one finger at a time" near it (pinky finger) so it was clear that the movement starts for him.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">See the examples:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Madrugad</span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">a (Dawn)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Explicar (explain)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">What do you
think?</span><br></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Madson Barreto</span></span></div></div></div></body></html>