Europa :-)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 4, 2005

  Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:
> Ok, so I'll dispense with that symbol.

Wonderful. That will simplify the writing a little.

And then the 10 handshape...the one with the thumb sticking out...It  
is a weird handshape that is one of our oldest and it probably needs  
to be improved in the IMWA...but for right now, let me show you why  
it is so hard to read...here is an accurate way to read it:

See E-Lesson
http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less016.html

The design of the symbol is not like other symbols and it is  
continually creating confusions for us...

This diagram might help for now...if you place your hand in the Flat  
hand position and then bend it into a fist, then rotate the hand to  
the position you want...I guess your writing would place the knuckles  
(the bent fingers) toward the left? smile

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