New 10 Handshape in SignPuddle now!

[Charles Butler]

For what it's worth.
 
>From these three choices, only the 3rd would I sign correctly.  I would not read the first one correctly at all, as my automatic reaction would be to see the thumb as up, not pointed toward me.
 
Charles
 
 

Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
SignWriting List
September 28, 2005

On Sep 28, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
> The finger groups are based on the ASL numbers 1 thru 10. Sign 
> languages are constantly evolving. I think there is a reason why 
> the 10 handshape in ASL has the thumb up, rather than to the side. 
> I'm not sure if that reason is valid for the alphabet, but this new 
> way feels weird and confusing.

Hello Everyone!
Wow. Well. I was planning to help Lucyna today to write her signs and 
I don't think it is confusing personally.

And in the past, people have always complained about the old symbol, 
and Steve Parkhurst and Stefan in Germany have changed the symbol in 
their own books. So I was trying to help everyone, that is all. As 
you can see by the attached, Stefan and Steve are using the middle 
symbol. But our old symbol uses the first one. No one seems to like 
the first one, and trying to teach it has been sooo hard...everyone 
says the first one is confusing. But that is the way it was a month 
ago...

Do you like the first one, Steve?...

BUT...I am happy to go back to the old and then place the new as a 
second variation and people can choose from either? I can't please 
everyone, that is obvious!

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