<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="">I can’t think of an ASL sign that would start with an H-handshape that then opens to a V-handshape. But there is one that starts with an R-handshape and then opens to a V-handshape. Would that use the scissor movement, or would that be something else?<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">

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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2022, at 1:22 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG" class="">sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">February 20, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Andre and everyone,</div><div class="">Thanks once again for catching this detail.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The little arrows inside the Scissors Symbol represent in-in or out-out movement. If the handshape starts as an open V handshape, looking like an open scissors, then the fingers have to go in-in, or close-close, moving towards the center of the hand, in the direction of closed fingers. So most cutting actions like cutting your hair would have the little arrows pointing in. See attached.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I could not find an example of a sign that starts with closed fingers in an H hand and then does an open-open movement. If anybody knows of a sign tell us ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:B4A8050E-31B9-4FFC-9875-70C23F5C5A33"><Image.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><span id="cid:C0683B41-83AC-431B-A15C-E695CE43115D"><Valerie_Signature_5.jpg></span></span><br class="">Val ;-)<br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>________________________________________________

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