Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of YOUR city and post to the List?

Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU
Thu Mar 28 16:32:50 UTC 2013


Thanks!

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I only know Detroit. :-)
>
>
> Adam
>
> On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway wrote:
>
> I don't know ASL, so I don't know a sign for Detroit, Ann Arbor, or
> Oberlin (my US places).
> So I'm posting the sign for Kathmandu, the city where I learned to sign!
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am a West Coaster, and I must admit that people get East Coast city
>> signs mixed up along with our own city signs. But this is how I personally
>> sign the 4 commonly confused "B" cities, since I am very picky and have
>> been known to correct people at times. ;-) It seems to match what you sign,
>> Kim.
>>
>> Boston, Massachusetts
>>
>> Baltimore, Massachusetts
>>
>> Berkeley, California
>>
>> Burbank, California
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone:
>> those of us in Boston, Massachusetts sign it thus:
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>> and refer to Berkeley, CA thus:
>>
>> But some of my signing friends tell me that when you're on the West
>> Coast, it's the other way around!
>> Best,
>> Kim from Boston
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>wrote:
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> March 28, 2013
>>>
>>> NAMES OF CITIES and STATES Around the World
>>>
>>> Thank you, Ingvild, Charles and Stefan for your signs!
>>>
>>> I would suggest that you add your signs to the International Sign
>>> Dictionary online:
>>>
>>> SignPuddle for International Signs Dictionary
>>> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35
>>>
>>> I just copied mine for La Jolla, California from the ASL Dictionary to
>>> the International Dictionary, and I hope you can do the same for your signs
>>> too…
>>>
>>> And I hope more names of cities, states, countries and other
>>> international signs can be added too…
>>>
>>> Here is what we have so far…and I really like all four spellings! Thanks
>>> to you all…
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Oberlin College
>
>
>


-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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