question about signwriting's configurations

[Valerie Sutton]

Hello Claudia and Mark -

SignWriting animated GIFs on the web show the Heel of Hand symbols. Photos and animation are by Adam Frost:

SignWriting Heel of Hand Symbols

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group05/01-05-002-01.html

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group05/01-05-004-01.html

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group05/01-05-006-01.html

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group05/01-05-017-01.html

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group05/01-05-019-01.html

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group10/01-10-002-01.html

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/group10/01-10-016-01.html


But, I will place diagrams on the SignWriting List and really explain them ...I hope to post an answer in an hour or so.... I will send a link to the Archive message when I do that, if anyone is interested -

Val ;-)

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On May 2, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> The "heel of the hand" is the lower part of the palm, next to the wrist (more or less quoting OED): the part of the hand that is analogous to the heel of the foot.
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> Mark A. Mandel
> Linguistic Data Consortium
> University of Pennsylvania
> 
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> 
> On 11.05.02, at 4:19 PM, Claudia S. Bianchini wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> I'm Claudia Savina Bianchini and I'm a PhD student at ISTC-CNR (in the team created by +Elena Pizzuto+), in Rome.
>> ...
>> 
>> My problem (for glyphes from 1 to 7) is that I've searched everywhere but I can't find a translation for "heel" that has nothing to do with feet. So my question is: is there feet's configuration on SW? and, if yes... why? I've never seen any deaf making configurations with their feet!
>> And I really can't understand the explanation for glyphe 8.
>> 
>> Maybe all this problem is caused by my horrible English?!?!
>