Sign for E-mail?

[Capmeister]

Non-dominant hand "C" shape.

Dominant hand "N" shape.

"N" goes back and forth thru the opening of the "C".

The concept is the "C" is the email account, and the "N" is the email traffic, incoming and outgoing.

The sign is a noun and verb.

The noun form is the back and forth motion.

The verb form is directional. "I will email (to) you." "You will email (to) me." "I will email (to) him."

Here in Michigan I've seen the same except with an X shape rather than an N.

I still use E and then mail. I'm set in my ways.

 

[Hear Again]

I remember an older sign for email which was the sign for mail, except the moving hand was the E handshape.

This was the sign I was taught when I started learning sign in 1995.

 

[Sheila]

Here, we use "one" shape in the place of "N" shape.

We use this one here along with a bent 5 hand in place of the N hand.

 

[Etoile]

I usually use the one Sheila does, bent 5 done as Reba described. I have also seen it with the 1 and I think I have seen it with the E. Don't think I've ever seen it with the n!