[Sw-l] Question about wrist side-flex

Wed Nov 2 17:43:38 UTC 2022

SignWriting List,
November 2, 2022

Hello SignWriting List,
and thank you Anna Grace and Adam and Hector for the questions and writings of wrist side-flex.

It is true that our current Lessons in SignWriting Textbook, which was published in 2014, only mentions Wrist Flexing, on numbered page 150, for forward and back and up and down. The side-flex was not shown in diagrams in 2014. This is one of the many reasons why I am bringing out a new version of the Lessons in SignWriting Textbook in 2023, to include these new trends in the writing system.

You will find, for example, in the old SignWriting Lessons books from Spain by Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, that in 2010 and earlier, we were placing a line for the arm, connected to the handshape, and that, along with arrows, would mean wrist movement. But that changed over time. Now the line for the arm has been moved to the Wrist-Flex symbol itself, and it is your palm facing, in the written sign, that indicates what direction the wrist flex goes - in the sign for CHEESE in ASL for example, the two hands remain contacting, while the Wrist Flex symbol shows the direction of the flex - the arrows show the movement of the hand in that direction without any other movement of the arm - it is solely the wrist. These are read well and it is more accurate than adding an arm line like the old days… but we need more instruction and examples in a more advanced book.

So here are some diagrams and I hope this helps - thank you for the videos, Anna Grace and Hector -

Please excuse my poor diagrams - I am not skilled at the new Photoshop and I obviously need to take some instruction on the new technology -

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