<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div class="">March 11, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SignWriting List, and AnnaGrace -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for the question and the writing ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope others will answer, better than I can do… It is very nice that you ask questions like this…it gets us thinking ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At first I thought your right fist was moving up and touching under your chin, but then I guessed you were writing KISS FIST, because I saw the kiss mouth position.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just looked up KISS FIST in the ASL SignPuddle and found these signs, written by three different writers… thank you everyone. Please see attached screen capture.</div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="69803C23-0F94-42E6-957E-58F67E39E25F" width="728" height="349" src="cid:25B24B49-AA7A-46F3-AE10-A1371F92E5F5" class=""></div><div class="">So ...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you meant to write KISS-FIST, then the up-arrow is accurate but it is not necessary to write it. The reader will read the “Position of Contact” (the kiss) and then follow the movement forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In this case, I was using knowledge of the sign to guide my reading. But if you meant “contacting under the chin” then I guessed wrong. Are there signs in ASL where the fist touches under the chin?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 11, 2022, at 1:42 PM, Ms. AnnaGrace <<a href="mailto:msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM" class="">msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">Check my spelling -- what does this look like in sign? It's quite an exercise on the use of arrows, huh?<br class=""><br class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="F129A5EC-6E86-4FE2-9571-69FFC16A32D3" src="cid:ii_l0my1pzh0" class=""><br class="">I look forward to your comments!<br class="">Thanks,<br class="">AnnaGrace<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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