<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div class="">February 8, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you Anna Grace for mentioning this book… </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lessons in SignWriting Textbook</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Axial Movements, which include Rotation Symbols and Wrist Flexing, are described in Chapter 8, pages 141 - 150.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And your understanding that you wrote below is correct. In Rotation Symbols, the forearm is the axis, that remains in one place. The forearm doesn't travel. The only movement is the rotation or twist.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are some examples:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="74218936-9D4F-4626-B0CF-849F915598C2" width="486" height="457" src="cid:D1F7DD17-3CA4-4151-84E4-432A445A1507" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 7, 2022, at 8:01 PM, AnnaGrace Greenfield <<a href="mailto:msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM" class="">msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Regardless of the angle of the line through the arrows, my understanding about these arrows is that they rotate without moving the forearms. (See under "Axial Movement" in the SignWriting textbook.)<br class="">Therefore, the signwriting in the video does not accurately depict the sign in the video.<br class=""><br class="">That's my take on it.<br class=""><br class="">-- AnnaGrace<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________

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