USA: Happy July 4th!

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 4, 2008

Hello Lucy!
This is so much fun, to share the writing of US states with someone  
like yourself, from Poland!

Do you have a map of Polish states with their sign names? We will  
always be interested to learn more about Poland too.

Regarding the sign names for the US states...you are right that more  
of the western states have sign names that are not based on  
fingerspelling, but actually, even the states that have sign names  
based on fingerspelling are real sign names and very Deaf names. Here  
in the US, fingerspelling of names of places can become like a real  
"sign"...they have real movement involved that would not happen in  
plain fingerspelling...

the fingerspelling evolved into a real sign with unique  
movement...Take a look at the sign for Minnesota...It is MINN but the  
movement makes it a real sign...the letter i moves back, and the two  
Ns move forward with emphasis twice...the back movement of the i is  
almost like a short unimportant movement that makes the forceful  
movement of the double N even more important...it has a rhythm to it ;-)


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On Jul 4, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Lucy wrote:
> I can, Val :-)
> Happy July 4th! :-)
> It seems that there western States are more Deaf than the eastern  
> ones :-)
> And now I can see your States have very strange borderlines :-)))
> Lucy
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