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[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 15, 2003

Ha! No it is not a typo! Those symbols have been in the writing system 
since 1995, but are rarely used...since they are used in Spanish Sign 
Language and only a few other signed languages that I know of...I do 
not personally use them in ASL...so that is a specific rule that I 
stated below and I meant it!

I said:

> Another important point...When the thumb is side, viewed from the side 
> view, the line for the thumb is placed on the dark side of the symbol. 
> But when the thumb is forward, viewed from the side view, the thumb 
> line comes out of the palm (the opposite side)...



On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 06:24 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Am I misreading your illustration?  In all of the rotations for the 
> "5" hand, the thumb is on the "dark" side, but the actual index hand 
> (to the left, standing alone) has the thumb on the "light" side.  Is 
> this a typo?
>  
> Charles
>
>
> Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
>
> SignWriting List
> July 14, 2003
>
> Researching Symbols continued...
>
> Another important point...When the thumb is side, viewed from the side 
> view, the line for the thumb is placed on the dark side of the symbol. 
> But when the thumb is forward, viewed from the side view, the thumb 
> line comes out of the palm (the opposite side), as shown in the GIF 
> below:
>
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>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif x-mac-creator=3842494D; 
> x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-type=47494666; name=StudySymbols-5.gif
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>
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