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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good morning Ronnie,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I see that you have a FEAST "social session" today at 7pm Paris time ... unfortunately I cannot make that -- work beckons me ... sigh</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I do have a question about the great presentation that Sandra did [I don't seem to have a current email for her]</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am wondering if you encountered the ASL sign which is all to often transcribed as WORSE in any of your elicitations? especially about being more wet ...</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have had a hard time convincing people that it is not really WORSE -- I believe it comes for LSF 'plus' for "more than" and can have a positive connotation as well. Marie Philip and MJ have often used this sign when something is being compared -- either between two things or people, or in a sequence of events of one person where each subsequent iteration or subsequent event intensifies or adds to the effect of the previous.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Have you seen this? and what do you think? Is there work on WORSE somewhere?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I hope this all makes sense. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you! I know you are crazy busy --- I am assuming that has not changed despite the fact that we are all "staying put" </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hope to see you again at some future conference.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Patty Lessard [interpreter and also adjunct faculty] </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>