<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">July 8, 2018</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi Rachel -</div><div class="">Oh. I see. Sorry for my rushed answer and my late answer as well ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The half circles of the Finger Circle is showing a circle that is only completed half-way - the Finger does not do a whole circle but a half circle instead. It is "painting" a path in the air so we are just writing the painting of the path it creates - Imagine black paint on the tip of the finger and think of the path the fingertip is writing in the air...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The little arrowhead on the half circles shows the direction of the half circle ... it is hard physically to get your finger to do these circles anyway - so if we know the general direction stated by the little arrowhead that seems enough for us to know the direction -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Finger Circles are first read by the position of the Finger Line itself - the reader sees the position of the Finger Line first - let's imagine that the Finger Line is at a diagonal - and then the half-circle symbol is placed near the tip of the Finger Line and it is only one half so you know to do a half circle in the direction of the arrowhead -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for all you are doing to document these small symbols - Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:20 PM, <<a href="mailto:rchannon1@VERIZON.NET" class="">rchannon1@VERIZON.NET</a>> <<a href="mailto:rchannon1@VERIZON.NET" class="">rchannon1@VERIZON.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Valerie, that would be great. Mostly Im trying to understand the symbols that show only half a circle (the second column)…. Rachel<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages <<a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Valerie Sutton<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, July 06, 2018 11:29 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [SPAM] Finger Circles<br class=""><b class="">Importance:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Low<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">SignWriting List<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">July 6, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Rachel!<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Great to hear from you. And thank you for this question. These are Finger Circular Movement Symbols - only for the fingers ... making circles from the Knuckle Joint. I will write again with a longer more detailed explanation shortly - Thank you for your patience.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Val ;-)<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">-----------<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 1:27 PM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rchannon1@VERIZON.NET" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">rchannon1@VERIZON.NET</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Can anyone explain for me what these symbols mean? In one set the fingers are parallel to the front wall, and in the other set they are parallel to the side wall and hit the front wall. My problem is that I don’t know why the second column in each are half circles and which direction each one represents. For example, is the first one in the second column (S2f110) representing the fingers moving in circles to the left and then down?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks!<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Rachel<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Finger circles wall<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span id="cid:image003.jpg@01D4156F.2A5D0780"><image003.jpg></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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