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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Apr 10, 2001 2:05 pm Subject: "Writing Hands the Way They Look" plus exceptions... | ||||||||||||||||
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> How would it read having the right hand at the right side with an extra >touch symbol placed at the thumb, to say; that the thumb is touching the >forehead? The head symbol will have the two touching symbols placed at the >forehead as normal. Tini SignWriting List April 10, 2001 Hello Tini, and Everyone! Thank you for your two questions about writing the ASL signs for Father-Mother, and Boat (or water cupped in your hand as you described). These questions are perfect for the rule of "Writing Hands the Way They Look". RULE: "Writing Hands the Way They Look" SignWriting Handshapes are written based on the way the hands look in real life. TO TEST YOUR WRITING: Take a photograph, and write the handshape directly on that photograph. If your writing matches the look of the hand in the photo, then you know your symbol is correct. EXCEPTIONS: Any handshape that cannot be seen easily, which includes: 1. The fingers point directly towards your eyes, so that the fingers look more like dots than lines. 2. The fingers point directly away from you, so that they are hidden behind the base of your hand and you cannot see them. 3. The hand is hidden by the face or other parts of the body (a common problem in the Expressive Viewpoint). As you can see, Tini, your two questions both fall under the Exceptions. The signs for Father and Mother in ASL have the thumb directed straight towards you, so the thumb really looks like a dot, not a line. The ASL sign for Boat is parallel with the floor. If you look down at your hands, once again, the fingers, although curved, are coming right at you...and they cannot be seen perfectly, and so the cupped hand directed straight forward is another one of those exceptions... My explanations are coming soon - -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: | ||||||||||||||||
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