CZECH Writing arms and shoulders

[nemery at U.WASHINGTON.EDU]

Honza,

this sounds a little like the ASL sign for "young", but with just one hand.  Is the hand brushing 
upward twice, on the body near the shoulder?  Maybe you could look up "young" in the ASL 
dictionary and see if that seems close.  Is the movement like a circle, or is it mostly an upward 
movement, and then going out and down just to return the hand so it can brush up again?

Nancy


On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> August 16, 2005
>
> Honza -
> I am very bad at reading word descriptions of movement and this one below I 
> really don't understand at all...
>
> I thought I remembered that there was an online video dictionary of Czech 
> signs? Am I wrong? I think that is how I saw the sign for Czech a long time 
> ago...so maybe that dictionary has a video of SCHOOL in Czech Sign 
> Language?...Val ;-)
>
> PS. Try to write it in SignWriting...it is better to at least show us 
> something, rather than using words only...
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> On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Honza wrote:
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>> Hi Val,
>> 
>> thanks for lesson. I think I really don't need shoulder in sign I am writing 
>> now.
>> I am trying to write down sign SKOLA (school).
>> Right hand goes in to arm-pit, up, out, down, in, up.. Hand touches body not 
>> the arm.
>> I don't know how to explain it and I don't have avi of that sign here.. so I 
>> hope it is understandable.
>> 
>> thanks Honza
>> 
>> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> SignWriting List
>>> August 16, 2005
>>> 
>>> Hello Honza and Everyone!
>>> I do not know the sign you are writing, Honza, but it is possible  that 
>>> you do not need the shoulder line at all...Take a look at the  sign for 
>>> COMPUTER in ASL that is attached....it shows contact on the  arm, but not 
>>> the shoulders, so we didn't bother to write the  shoulders....just a 
>>> thought I wanted to share with you...Keep up the  great work!  Val ;-)
>>> 
>>> 
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>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
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