[sw-l] My Thumbs Hurt!

[Charles Butler]

Is this what you were looking for Sandy?



The simple open hand is under the "5" hand (fifth group) down.

 this rotation is from the side on the hand you used.  I could see using it as a black palm to show the same thing as your "rain" sign.  It's difficult to show a "spread" hand and a hand with the thumb sticking out and still make it "instantly" readable.

Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org> wrote:

List,

I just put the sign for rain in the BSL dictionary, like this: .

What has happened to the hand in the IMWA that the thumb is sticking out at right angles from the back of the palm? This makes no sense to me but I couldn't find the old handshape with a completely black palm and the thumb drawn as a line on the opposite side to the baby finger.

Is the sign as I've written it correct (the palms should be facing down, though slightly angled in the direction of motion), or is the simple spread hand handshape still available?

Sandy



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