<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div class="">May 4, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello everyone, and Uta -</div><div class="">Thank you for these questions related to how many handshapes are needed to write signs. And your examples show two different issues.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So let me take your second example first.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I personally write, I follow our SignSpelling Guidelines, that help with this issue. Your second example would be written differently, following "SignSpelling Guideline 1: First Write the Position of Contact”, which is explained on numbered pages 194-195 in the Lessons in SignWriting Textbook. It is also explained on this web page: <a href="https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lessons in SignWriting Textbook, (See numbered pages 194-195)</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="">So to explain… in your second example, following the Guideline, I would write the “Position of Contact”, because there is real meaning in the ending position. And to have a position of contact, there has to be an open position in the beginning, so that can be assumed…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I would write it this way. In my attached example, the second one would take away the opening position because it can easily assumed:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="05FADE97-BDB4-4580-B4EF-7E6CF3D5E3FD" width="96" height="146" src="cid:F3A15DD3-291E-402F-AAA8-3D8E2C19352C" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 4, 2022, at 5:35 AM, Uta Meißner <<a href="mailto:uta.hielscher@GMAIL.COM" class="">uta.hielscher@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">I would take example (4), because the hand will be open during movement. <br class="">If the reader knows signwriting well, then I would like to reduce the symbols.<br class=""><br class="">There is the symbol for opening the fingers. " ^ "<br class=""><br class="">I'm interested if you guys can read my proposed signwriting better.<br class=""><br class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="B0796671-AC81-4967-BC7D-B479E4F46E37" src="cid:ii_l2rk38m95" class=""><br class=""><br class="">I know, not always only the first hand form is enough, sometimes you need the end hand form for that. How about highlighting the two hand shapes in different colors. Start handshape -> dark gray and end handshape -> black?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="6D25A612-7132-425A-8D79-8CA33DDCFDFF" src="cid:ii_l2rka5yb6" class=""><br class="">Uta<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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