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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Nov 12, 2000 10:03 pm Subject: INSTRUCTION: Reading Finger Projection | ||||||||||||||||
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Here in our basic course of sign writing and teaching the third group of handshapes all the deaf (and I really mean ALL of them), just didn't agree with the right and left symbols.. SignWriting List November 12, 2000 Dear SW List and SignNet! I smiled when I read your message about not agreeing on these handshapes! I remember feeling quite frustrated with them myself years ago! And the reason is...we have a logical way to write fingers projecting towards you....we use dots. Well....that was fine with very simple positions...but when lots of fingers got involved, it became complicated. So I would like to share this web page with you: Projecting Fingers https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/elessons/less019.html Please read the explanation on that web page. In the attached diagram, taken from Steve Parkhurst's book and illustrations, you will see that whenever the thumb, or a finger, protrudes straight towards the reader, or straight away from the reader, it can be written as a dot...the handshape in this diagram is the thumb projecting forward...so as it changes palm facing, the look of the thumb changes, mirroring the way it happens in real life...the dot represents the tip of the thumb coming right at you... | ||||||||||||||||
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