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

Stefan Wöhrmann stefanwoehrmann at GEBAERDENSCHRIFT.DE
Thu Mar 28 20:01:28 UTC 2013


Hi Erika, 

 

well I cannot perform that ;-(  although I have an idea what you want to
show – but right hand up there is the horizontal line of hand and lower arm
- nothing that can be rest on the left palm ???

 

Stefan

 

  _____  

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city and post to the List?

 

Yes, the right hand comes to rest on top of the palm of the left. Maybe I
should just have shown them already in contact?

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann
<stefanwoehrmann at gebaerdenschrift.de> wrote:

Hi Erika, 

 

can you explain Kathmandu: 

 

left flat hand palm up fingers to the right ( no problem)

 

right hand Index – Hand – palm facing the signer  moving down  - mh  –  how
to get the touch between the two hands – right hand on top of the left hand
?? 

 

Stefan 

 

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. März 2013 17:18


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city and post to the List?

 

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
<http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35> &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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