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From:  Stefan Woehrmann
Date:  Fri Nov 10, 2000  10:36 pm
Subject:  Re: Rigth and Left

Hello from Germany,
 
I want to tell you how greatfull I feel about your spirit to go for it . It is so enriching to have a close look at others people questions in order to check my own knowledge or attitude.
 
:-)
 
 
I donīt know what your source is. Where did you pick upt the left and right illustrations ?
 
I do remember that I had a short discussion with Valerie and Charles Butler about spelling - rules or agreements how to write the bent fingers -
 
Let me tell you that I agree completely with your spelling. I had a very close look at the "Lessons in SignWriting Textbook and Workbook  " by Valerie Sutton. chapter 3 Hands Group 3 page 36 shows a long listing of various handshapes.
I guess that Iīm influenced by the Parkhursts book which is a tremendous support in learning SW.
 
(Hello Steve and Dianne - how is Spencer doing ? ;-) )
 
For quite a while I decided to write the bentfingers the way you suggest it in your gif. I feel comfortable with that and my students ask me to mirror the hand if there are other spellings in my texts which I wrote months ago !
 
All the best and keep on asking !!!
 
SW is a wonderfull thing and all of us ins Germany who got in contact with it so far are very interested in using it more and more.
 
All the best -
 
Stefan ;-)
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 6:26 PM
Subject: Rigth and Left

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..I will explain better:
Right hand, bent 3 (look at the fingers drawn at the right side)
Now look at the same right hand and the fingers are drawn at the left side
and so on...
 
If we use our visual sense we should agree with them...how can it be ?
For them the correct hands would be:
left   right
 
 
left   right
and so on...
Can anyone help us ?
Thank you
SignNet-MCT-PUCRS
 
 
 

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  Replies Author Date
4152 What great messages!! Valerie Sutton Sat  11/11/2000
4160 Stefan: Please re-post your rules ;-)) Valerie Sutton Sun  11/12/2000

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