Flying Bird

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 19, 2004

Hello Sandy! hmmm...let's see...In this flying bird...it looks like to
me that the thumb and baby finger are moving in and out, or up and
down? strange flapping of wings?...smile...your writing showed that
well, but there are other ways to write it...I hope other List members
will show us their versions and I will prepare mine as well...next
message...But the baby finger is going in and out too, right? not only
the thumb? The first handshape is the baby and index fingers out? and
then the baby finger goes down nd the thumb comes up?...Val ;-)



On Jun 19, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:

> Dear SignWriting List,
>
> I'm stuck!
>
> In BSL we have a classifier for a flying bird. It's just the "L" hand
> held
> horizontally and moved in the direction the index finger is pointing
> while
> the thumb flaps up and down.
>
> I've tried to demonstrate this as a series of handshapes in the
> attached
> GIF. What I would like to do is write it in the form of the sign below
> (which show a bird flying "overhead"), but although I've been looking
> to see
> if there's anything I've missed in the way of (thumb) knuckle
> movements and
> (thumb) rotation, I can't find a way of showing the movement of the
> thumb as
> the hand moves forward. Apart from the general forward motion (forward
> from
> the bird's point of view, that is!), no part of the hand moves other
> than
> the thumb.
>
> So, how's it done?
>
> Sandy Fleming


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