[sw-l] Signs for SWITZERLAND

[Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod]

Le 3 avr. 05, à 03:58, Valerie Sutton a écrit :

> SignWriting List
> April 2, 2005
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> On Apr 2, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:
>> some deaf people around say they prefer the 1st version we had of
>> ROMAND (adding left hand)... some do prefer this one......
>> and there are even some deaf people that say we should write /Suisse
>> France/ or /Suisse français/...
>> I don't know what to answer!! keep this one!!!  there will always be
>> people that aren't happy about the one we'll choose!
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> Yes, you are right that people sign things differently and in this
> case you can't win...So if you are happy with the attached we will
> keep it!
go for it!! it's fine!
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> Actually it means that I have to change several signs for SWITZERLAND
> on my different web sites because before now, I was writing the cupped
> fingers with the fingers down instead of up, for the cup...as you know
> both are correct technically, but Ingvild pointed out to me that there
> is a psychology to having the fingers up rather than down...that it is
> a more positive feeling...which I had never thought of before...so now
> we are all agreed the fingers shall be up...but I haven't changed all
> the signs on my sites yet...in time I will get to it, but meanwhile
> they are not wrong from a technical point of view...Any white palm to
> the chest means that the palm faces the chest no matter which
> direction of the fingers...
I agree ... I like finger dups up better too!
hope it won't give you too muehc work to change all this!

Anny
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