fingers bending

Valerie Sutton sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG
Thu Aug 27 17:25:25 UTC 2009


The side view helps a lot! I think they look very clear from the side  
view...don't you, Honza?

Val ;-)

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On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Adam Frost wrote:

> Maybe I'm a little confused what you are asking. Are you asking how  
> the bends of fingers are different in those three handshapes? I are  
> that it can be hard to tell the difference because they are SO  
> close. I have to work on making sure I knew the difference so that I  
> could make it as clear as I could in the photos. Personally, I think  
> that the side view is when the difference is clearly visible. The  
> other views aren't as clear. I have attached the photos with the  
> side view. Does that help make it clear, or am I misunderstanding  
> the question?
>
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> Adam
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Honza wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> yes. I asked this because according the symbols it seems that no.1 is
>> relaxed spread cup and 2 is spread fingers bent
>> from the middle joint only.
>> That's why I asked if photos of handshapes are exact.
>> .. just pretending confusing.
>>
>> thanks
>> Honza
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Valerie Sutton<sutton at signwriting.org 
>> > wrote:
>>> SignWriting List
>>> August 27, 2009
>>>
>>> Hello Honza!
>>> Thanks for this message -
>>>
>>> Yes...Adam is doing an outstanding job with the beautiful photos  
>>> of his own
>>> hand, and then enlarging the symbols and then creating the animated
>>> GIFs...then I post the animation on the web.
>>>
>>> You can view them starting on this web page:
>>>
>>> ISWA Symbol Lessons
>>> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/
>>>
>>> At the moment, Adam has completed Groups 1- 5, and is partially  
>>> finished
>>> with Group 6. I will post five more in Group 6 today.
>>>
>>> But there is still Groups 7-10 to finish, and then all the  
>>> handshapes in the
>>> ISWA will be documented. Thank you, Adam, for this important work!
>>>
>>> The three bent-finger photos that you attached, Honza, do look  
>>> similar to
>>> each other and it is hard to see the difference, but the symbols  
>>> are trying
>>> to show the difference between a five hand that has 1) spread  
>>> fingers bent
>>> from the middle joint only  2) a relaxed spread cup  3) a bent  
>>> spread
>>> cup...maybe seeing them from the side would help you...
>>>
>>> Was that your question?
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Honza wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Val,
>>>>
>>>> it is great it seems SignWriting Symbol Lessons is done.
>>>> but now I am little bit confused about 5 handshape's sybols.
>>>>
>>>> especially this (see attachment).
>>>> I just want to be sure that symbols lower are more bent as photos  
>>>> shows.
>>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>> Honza
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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