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Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Mon Aug 20, 2001 3:13 pm Subject: Re: sw symbols for the different countries _ here : Mexico | ||||||||
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Hello Charles - thank you very much for your feed-back - Your verbal description of the different palm orientation of my gif are exactely what I wanted to describe - so horridooo thanks to SW we can exchange our ideas about a special handorientation at the beginning of a special sign in a given SL . The reason for my doubts is that I thought that you have to hook the index-fingers into each others which is almost impossible if you hold the right palm down and the left palm up. Especially if you do this in a signed sentence - i thought that you would automatically twist one of the hands a little bit so that the two palms are forming a angle instead of one upon each other ?? Writing signs is a constant process of deciding and accepting a solution that doesn ±² fit 100 % ;-( But looking at various people who perform the same sign - we realize that the variants are much more among the signers but in the spelling of the written signs Stefan ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Butler To: Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:11 PM Subject: Re: sw symbols for the different countries _ here : Mexico > Stefan, > > Looking at Mexico, the orientation of a) is actually correct. The left hand > is upward, not toward the reader. The orientation is correct as written. > The palm facing is "up". b) would be correct only if you split the finger > off so that the palm facing is shown "upward". The back of the hand is > toward the floor, exactly as a) shows. Your second b) is upside down. The > hand you show is palm down. > > The "mime" of the sign Mexico is of a "serape" being thrown around the > shoulders and clasped in front. > > Charles Butler > | ||||||||
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