Heel of Hand Flat Hand and Fist

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 2, 2011

Thank you, Stefan, for this message to Claudia about the Heel of Hand symbols...good description!


On May 2, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hi Valerie,
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> I am fine. Hope everything is ok with you too. Sooooo busy as always ... A minute ago I sent this message to Claudia – it did not show up on the sw-list. ;-(
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> My fault I simply clicked the reply-button.
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> Stefan
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> Hi Claudia,
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> nice to hear from you and thanks for your question. Do not worry about your English – big smile –
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> Well it should  be easy to understand what you are talking about.
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> You know we read and write from the expressive point of view.
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> Just imagine you stretch your arm in front of you. Looking at your hand – fingers pointing forward it is difficult to look at the palm or back hand. Now imagine you cut of your hand and look from behind – what you see is almost a flat rectangle thumb of the right hand sticking out to the left – back of hand upper half (fill) – palm of hand downside (without fill)
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> This point of view allows a special presentation of the hands in diagonal angles which is a problem with the other common symbols ...
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> Just imagine to write the sign for boat, ship, roof, book ,... kind of that ...
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> In early days – at times when we wrote our documents with the good old DOS SW program we did not use these symbols. And at that time – till today I almost never use them –   But who knows if it comes to the point that someone feels more secure to write the exact diagonal angle –they might be helpful.
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> Just keep asking if there are other problems.
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> Stefan
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