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SignWriting List February 2, 2018 Thank you, Rachel and Charles, for your messages. I will answer you shortly, Rachel. Charles, here attached is a screen capture that is a .png format. I hope you can see the graphics this way?: Val ;-) ------------------------------------- > On Feb 2, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Charles Butler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I am unable to read any of Ms. Channon's symbols in her email on yahoo. Do they open better in gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>. > > Charles Butler [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 240-764-5748 Clear writing moves business forward. > > > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 10:13 PM, "[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > I have a new question โ this time about rotation symbols. In the lessons in signwriting book (maybe I should say bible ๐) forearm rotation is discussed starting on page 142. I am just having a hard time understanding how the symbols match with the actions. > > > The problem is that I donโt understand what the arrows mean in the rotation symbols. I see that for example if the forearm points up, that is the wall plane and it is a double line. But if the arrow shows a movement to the right, what does that mean? Because technically the arm stays in one place and doesnโt move? > This is the set of signs that I am trying to understand: (S2df) > > ๑ก > ๑ข > ๑ฃ > ๑ค > ๑ฅ > ๑ฆ > ๑ง > ๑จ > ๑ฉ > ๑ช > ๑ซ > ๑ฌ > ๑ญ > ๑ฎ > ๑ฏ > ๑ฐ > > If I am describing these symbols can I say something like the following: (in all these symbols I understand we are talking about the right arm and it is in an upright position, pointing to the ceiling) > In the first symbol, the thumb moves from right to left and the palm first faces the signer and then faces the viewer > In the second symbol, the thumb moves left and down??? > In the third symbol, the thumb moves in a curve from left to right so that the hand is first palm out to viewer and then palm in to signer? > The fourth symbol looks almot like the third > In the fifth symbol, the thumb moves left to right and the palm of the hand is first facing the viewer and ends facing the signer? > > I am really confusedโฆ.. > > Rachel ________________________________________________ SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] SignWriting List Archives & Home Page http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1