AW: [sw-l] Spelling of ASL Wallet (retry #3)

[Charles Butler]

Think of your hands flat against each other.  There
are two possible hinges.  One along the edge of your
hands (like a book) or one at the tip of your fingers,
like a long skinny wallet.

Wallet is opening the short side (the fingers) not the
long side (the edge of the hand). It only opens
halfway, not to the full flatness of a book, but to a
45 degree angle.

Does that make sense now?  Because it is a noun in
ASL, it opens twice.

Charles

--- Stefan Wöhrmann
<stefanwoehrmann at GEBAERDENSCHRIFT.DE> wrote:

> Hi Val, Charles and everybody –
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> sorry to bother you but I still cannot understand
> any of the
> “wallet-spelling” that include wrist –flexing.
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> But who knows perhaps there is something that I am
> not aware of.
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> As far as I understood this frist-flexing symbol so
> far – we keep the lower
> arm where it is but move the fingertips (in case of
> flathand) into the
> direction of the little arrows –  up and down, left
> or right, back and forth
> -    ( compare: flag, fish, ...)
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> Now here – the sign starts with flat hands parallel
> to the floor, palms
> touching each other –
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> Now the fingertips stay in position ( is that
> correct) but the hands open
> and the wrists move outwards – as if opening a book
> –
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> Now the two hands touch again (palm on palm) and
> again the signer opens the
> hands and looks at his hands –
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> hmm – the description wrist flexing  - movement of
> the hands outwards while
> the fingertips keep contact is something what I
> cannot understand –
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> Any advice? Suggestions?
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> Stefan ;-)
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>   _____
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> Von: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Valerie Sutton
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2005 21:43
> An: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Betreff: Re: [sw-l] Spelling of ASL Wallet (retry
> #3)
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> SignWriting List
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> June 15, 2005
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> Charles Butler wrote:
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> Here is my variant on Wallets, which I think shows
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> what the reader was getting at. None of our
> writings,
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> until this one, show the final position at the point
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> of the movement arrow, which I think is much
> clearer.
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> It's not a separate sign, which would be below the
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> first position, but a movement "within" a sign,
> which
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> to me should be "at the tip of the arrow" whether
> up,
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> down, or to the side.
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> Look's very good to me! Is it in SignPuddle?...
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> This has been an interesting discussion...very
> enjoyable... Val ;-)
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