<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>March 1, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Madson, Charles, Stefan and everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>Big smile ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>There are two ways to write Finger Trills - both are fine. I personally prefer this one, which shows the progression of one finger closing or opening and then the next and the next and the next - one dot at a time - you start reading at the end of the arrow and move towards the arrowhead direction - These are very detailed symbols:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="875" width="1018" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="6f879125-dc18-4e55-a8a6-0b098338b320" src="cid:58A4EC65-E961-4237-9402-453075FE075F"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Madson Barreto wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><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></div><img name="Explicar-1.png" id="2120a013-0436-4da6-9017-ca3d915c248a" height="209" width="197" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:FC7448E2-AB73-4D96-A0CF-9F8A8031FF26"><img name="symbol - Opening the knuckles from the hand, one finger at a time.png" id="ee1914a3-d5db-4e88-a010-0cc45eee448c" height="56" width="40" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:41CA0804-4C3B-45AA-9A03-0EC0C47D5D7C"><img name="Madrugada-1.png" id="dafcacd5-0515-49fe-9829-672bdad653cd" height="230" width="221" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:76CA8352-195E-4453-A4F1-2EC7E011059E"><img name="Opening the knuckles from the hand, one finger at a time.png" id="2e0007e1-53f6-4417-8c26-25de7112eae8" height="232" width="274" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:CD52E462-44BB-4DE7-B304-25466CA46040"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>