Writing scratching and drumming fingers, and asandbank for SignWriting

[Stuart Thiessen]

Well, the difference is that with ASL, we are using the pads of the fingers rather than the fingernails or finger tips. Theoretically, you could have a sign that distinguishes between finger pads and finger tips. :)

If so, what to do?
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 07:54:25 
To:"SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Cc:"Carl Jones" <sugraki at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [sw-l] Writing scratching and drumming fingers, and a
 sandbank for SignWriting


SignWriting List
May 11, 2008

Hello everyone -
I am not sure if this message posted to the List or not, so I will  
send it again in pieces...Val ;-)

Carl Jones from the UK wrote:
> First, congratulations on the SignWriting Image Server.  It's  
> looking awesome. :-)


Thank you, Carl...I am sure that Steve will be glad to know you feel  
that way... I agree. Steve did an awesome job!



> I was wondering.  In BSL, or at least in my dialect, the sign for  
> 'poor' is scratching your elbow.  How would you write this? How do  
> you write that something has contact with the fingernails, not the  
> fingers?

We have a similar sign for POOR in American Sign Language...The  
fingers brush twice at the elbow. See two ways of writing that ASL  
sign here:














Although in the general Sutton Movement Writing system, we can  
differentiate between fingertips and fingerpads, we have never written  
the fingernail...I personally cut my fingernails down to the bone, so  
that I have no fingernails, and I often wear gloves when I sign for  
medical reasons, yet I can still sign...so I am sure that "fingertip"  
is enough information...and whether it is the nail or not, would not  
change the meaning of the sign...

In the UK, I know that you pronounce the word "schedule" differently  
than we do here in the US, but our two countries still spell (write)  
the word "schedule" with the same or similar spellings, even though we  
pronounce the same word differently, so we do not write with enormous  
detail for everyday use in English either...what matters is...is there  
another sign in BSL that has a different meaning, if the person had  
fingernails or not? I doubt that ;-)

So fingertips is enough information, rather than fingernail!





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