New 10 Handshape in SignPuddle now!

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 27, 2005

On Sep 27, 2005, at 9:56 PM, Charles Butler wrote:
> No, Valerie.  I am reading it like the hand heel, exactly as it  
> looks like.  I am looking at all of the hands from the same view,  
> straight on at the hand, not from above, or below.

Ah, That is the catch! I am not writing the heel of the hand. As I  
told Adam, it would be good to develop a way to write the heel of the  
hand for a fist someday, but that is not what that symbol represents  
right now.

The Heel of the Hand symbols we have right now, are only for the Flat  
Hand and are not related to fists that are projecting forward. I  
understand why you and Adam want a fist projecting forward, because  
that is what is happening with that handshape, but for now we are  
seeing it like an S hand from above. We put our hand in an S shape  
parallel to the floor and we look down on the hand and then the thumb  
comes up...so it is an S hand with the thumb up, parallel to the  
floor... That is what people chose...they did not want the one with  
the dot in 05...you said yourself that you wanted 5B in the attached,  
and that has a break at the knuckle joints...

When we have a break at the knuckle joints on a square symbol, as in  
05, that automatically means Top View parallel to the floor. If it  
were the Heel of the Hand, you could not have a break at the knuckle  
joint of that symbol. So you chose Top View in 5b whether you  
realized it or not ;-))

In a few months, we can re-visit that symbol again, but for now, I am  
writing with it...and for me, at the moment at least, it is working  
beautifully...look at the ASL sign for poster attached...I really  
like it.... Val ;-)



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