<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">March 17, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear SW List Members!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are some signs that are used in many sign languages, and can be read by most signers…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example, let’s discuss the sign for WRITE or WRITING.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe that many sign languages use these signs. Do you agree? There may be a difference in handshape, but they still would be understood by foreign signers reading the signs because the sign is so universal…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="225" width="328" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="F1433B75-3DB0-48D5-BE0F-8DFB55C9616A" src="cid:98C4D285-5F26-4773-A241-353FDCFA89D7" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They all look like someone holding a pen or pencil, and making the motion of writing across a palm of the hand, or down in columns or down a blackboard, or with a flourish, and it would be hard to say what sign language the sign comes from…There are probably many more variations upon the same theme...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can we call these “international signs”? I would like your feedback -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They could be placed in our “International Signs Puddle”…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div></body></html>________________________________________________
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