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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Jun 28, 2001 2:44 pm Subject: Re: Start and End Positions | |
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Cris at SignNet wrote: > Here I am again with an old doubt: should I write the end or start >position ? I've read the it's best to write the last handshape, but >I really feel that we read clearly with the start position and then >add the symbol of movement. SignWriting List June 28, 2001 Hello Cris and Everyone! Thanks for this question. It is very fortunate that you wrote both positions, or I would have read it quite differently. The movement is not from the middle joint, but instead it is a "hinge movement" from the knuckle joint, a little like the ASL signs for "twenty" or "print" or "bird". The dots cannot be used in this case. Dots are used to go from a straight finger to a bent one, but your sign is not bending from the middle joint...it is moving like a door opening and closing at the hinge of the knuckle joint, and the fingers themselves do not bend any more or any less. So I am preparing a series of lessons on this now. It will take me a few hours...but it is coming! So there is a good reason why you had doubts, Cris...it didn't feel right to you, and that is understandable.... That is why I suggest to write both beginning and ending positions whenever you feel doubts...that way, the issues of which symbols to use becomes clearer, and people do not mis-read the signs as often. More 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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