[sw-l] FLASH-THE-LIGHT

[Valerie Sutton]

Yes...the Scissors symbol cannot be used in the case of Flash the  
Light...it was not designed for that kind of movement...

The Scissors symbol has the Knuckle Movement Arrows inside two lines.  
Like an Inbetween symbol that has two lines with the contact star  
between, stating the contact is between two things....well the  
scissors symbol is similar to that...it is ONLY for movement like a  
scissors, that moves side to side from the knuckle joint of the  
index, middle, ring or baby fingers. It is never used with the  
thumb....It cannot be used for forward or up and down knuckle  
movement. Only the side to side knuckle movement between the index  
finger and the middle finger that you do when you are pretending to  
cut something with a scissors...like the number 2 hand...spreading  
the fingers and then closing them in an H and then spreading them in  
a 2 hand again and then making the H again...that is a scissors  
movement...

I am having problems with the SignWriting List software that the  
college has given me and I am quite tired out from  it...I have tried  
to post several messages and they refuse to post and there are other  
problems too...

I am so sorry, but I need a little time to focus on this...maybe  
tomorrow morning I can start giving better explanations of these  
symbols -

Have a great evening everyone -

Val ;-)



On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:30 PM, K.J. Boal wrote:

> It's the movement ASL uses when writing the word "scissors"; the  
> symbol is 'hinge-in-between'.  (The 'in-between' symbol with hinges  
> inside instead of a contact symbol.)  Val teaches it under Question  
> #0069 on the e-Lessons, but it's not in the manual.
> KJ

Val ;-)


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