COLOMBIA: Question Tortoise sign

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 30, 2003

Thanks for your feedback, Charles!

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On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 03:48  PM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Of all the variants, I think Number 3 is clearest as well.  The back
> of the
> covering hand is dark, the thumb is shown as closing twice to a bent
> position, and the thumb line is detached to show the hand pointing
> away from
> the signer.  The double close is on the thumb rather than the hand to
> show
> that the thumb wiggles.  There is no easy way to show that thumb
> position
> from the remains clear in all rotations.
>
> Charles Butler

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