<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=""><div class="">Hello Josenilson Mendes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is a very good question. :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I personally don't use the smaller versions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe it has to do with the case of when one finger does the movement but the other active fingers do not. So the bigger symbols mean all the fingers move rather than only the specific finger.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope that is understandable. :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">————————Google Translate into Portuguese—————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Olá Josenilson Mendes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Esta é uma questão muito boa. :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eu pessoalmente não uso as versões menores.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Acredito que tenha a ver com o caso de quando um dedo faz o movimento, mas os outros dedos ativos não. Portanto, os símbolos maiores significam que todos os dedos se movem, e não apenas o dedo específico.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Espero que seja compreensível. :-)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2021, at 3:52 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:0000001342802f5f-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">0000001342802f5f-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">April 26, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">English Translation from Google:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250);" class="">Dear Valerie and Adam Frost,
A question arose among some fellow SignWriting researchers as to why these symbols have different sizes. When should we write the largest and when should we write the smallest? Does it have anything to do with the amount of fingers that move?</span></div><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_knz5qwos0"><image.png></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250);" class="">
Grateful for the attention!
Josenilson Mendes</span></div><div class=""><font color="#202124" face="Google Sans, arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#202124" face="Google Sans, arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250);" class="">____________<br class=""></span></font><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2021, at 3:20 PM, Josenilson da Silva Mendes <<a href="mailto:jsm88b@gmail.com" class="">jsm88b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Caros Valerie e Adam Frost,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Surgiu uma dúvida entre alguns colegas pesquisadores de escrita de sinais sobre a razão pela qual estes símbolos têm tamanhos diferentes. Quando devemos escrever o maior e quando escrever o menor? Tem alguma relação com a quantidade de dedos que se movem?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span id="cid:ii_knz5qwos0"><image.png></span><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Grato pela atenção!</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Josenilson Mendes</span><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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