Contact symbol put where? :-)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 30, 2007

On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
> My personal general rule for contact placing (could be entirely  
> wrong but for what it's worth) is that the handshape that is doing  
> the contact has the contact symbol on the opposite side of the  
> contact. So if you look at both Stuart's and Cindy's sign name, you  
> see that the double touch is opposite of the actual contact  
> (releative of course).

This is interesting, Adam. So following your idea above, then these  
two signs are written correctly below?


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How would you write contact on the cheek directly side with the fist?

Val ;-)