As with other forms of manual communication, Fingerspelling can be comprehended visually or tactually.

Fingerspelling can be one-handed such as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language.

Fingerspelling has only become a part of NZSL since the 1980s ; prior to that, words could be spelled or initialised by tracing letters in the air.

Fingerspelling can also be used for emphasis, clarification, or, sometimes extensively, by English-speaking learners of Auslan.

Fingerspelling is used in different sign languages and registers for different purposes.

Fingerspelling is also used by Deaf people as a part of sign languages, for some proper nouns, or when quoting words or short phrases from English.

Fingerspelling is a manual technique of signing used to spell letters and numbers ( numerals, cardinals ).

Fingerspelling has been introduced into certain sign languages by educators, and as such has some structural properties that are unlike the visually motivated and multi-layered signs that are typical in deaf sign languages.

Fingerspelling words is not a substitute for using existing signs: it takes longer to sign, it is harder to perceive.

Fingerspelling as the main form of communication is known as the Rochester Method, also known as Visible English.

Fingerspelling ( or dactylology ) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands.

* Tactile Fingerspelling ( Deafblind Alphabet ): Every word is spelled out using a manual alphabet.

The BSL Fingerspelling Alphabet.

The ISL Fingerspelling Alphabet.

* ASL Fingerspelling Resource Site Free online fingerspelling lessons, quizzes, and activities.

* ASL Fingerspelling Online Advanced Practice Tool Test and improve your receptive fingerspelling skills using this free online resource.

* Fingerspelling Beginner's Learning Tool Learn the basic handshapes of the fingerspelled alphabet.

* Manual Alphabet and Fingerspelling Further information, fingerspelling Tips and video example of ASL Alphabet.

Fingerspelling uses 26 different signs to represent the 26 letters of the English alphabet.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

But a resumption does not seem justifiable now.

There does not seem to be any reasonable basis for distinction either in terms of the nature of the tax attribute or in terms of tax-avoidance possibilities.

and even on subjectivist assumptions that does not seem very bright.

Perhaps to some their work does not seem particularly vital.

He does not seem to have caught the subtleties of the man.

Only with the more sensual, intense and baroque expressions of Marenzio, Monteverdi and Gesualdo does the singing seem a little superficial.

individually they are nearly as mortal as you -- the difference does not seem very marked to us, where it exists.

Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.

However, it does seem clear that his first notable work, Summa Quoniam Homines, was completed somewhere between 1155 and 1165, with the most conclusive date being 1160, and likely was developed through his lectures at the school in Paris.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

Competence does not seem to have been the main issue, but rather, at least in the 4th century BC, whether they were loyal democrats or had oligarchic tendencies.

Whether the democratic failures should be seen as systemic, or as a product of the extreme conditions of the Peloponnesian war, there does seem to have been a move toward correction.

It does seem clear that possession of slaves allowed even poorer Athenians — owning a few slaves was by no means equated with wealth — to devote more of their time to political life.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

The text does however seem to imply, based on the text from the earlier passage of Revelation 16: 14, that the purpose of this gathering of kings in the " place called Armageddon " might be so that these kings could do battle with one another.

Benedict does not seem to have left Rome for the purpose of becoming a hermit, but only to find some place away from the life of the great city.

The Greek text corrects the impossibilities but does not seem to represent an earlier version.

Establishing their good character then tarnishing it does not seem likely.

Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented ' history ' as we know it.

There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.

It seems wrong to say that " went to a ballgame " is a property that instantiates John, because " went to a ballgame " does not seem to be the same ontological kind of thing as, for instance, redness.