[sw-l] left-handed or right-handed?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 6, 2004

Bill Reese wrote:
> Your signs came through fine for me, Kathleen. Location is not 
> dependent on the dominant hand.  I see this as an issue of 
> clarification: the students need to be taught that location is always 
> the same, no matter which of their hands is dominant.

Good point, Bill. I have trouble reading the signs as they were 
written, because the hands are too far away from each other. When I 
first saw them, I thought the contact stars meant that the hands were 
touching the chest. So in these signs, the hands need to be written 
closer together to show their inter-relationship...That may be one of 
the reasons people mis-read the signs.... See attached diagram...


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