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Hi Charles<br>
<br>
IMO it depends...<br>
<br>
People often sign SKOLA twice and so do I. Some people can sign it once
in a hurry and it is enough, because there is no other czech sign which
can be confused with it.<br>
Signer on the video is famous for his signed czech, so he doesn't
always sign as deaf-born. You can see him articulate the word "skola"
so I think he signs the sign threetimes because he signs it as long as
long is the duration of the word articulation (that's my opinion).<br>
<br>
<br>
Generally - In signed czech language I often see that the number of
moves corresponds with the number of syllabels of the gloss
(articulated) word (skola has two syllables... sko-la).<br>
(I dont like it, but many hearing people do it /counting me - smile/)<br>
<br>
I haven't noticed there is some difference in the number of moves
between nouns, verbs or other words in Czech sign language.<br>
Some signs have different meanings if you do one more or one less move,
but it changes the whole meaning and not the type of word.<br>
For example:<br>
<br>
KONEC (FINISH, END, TO FINISH, TO END, ENDING, END OF ...)<br>
<img area="2475" src="cid:part1.02070705.01000504@ruce.cz" alt="konec"
align="middle" border="0"><br>
<br>
NEMOC, NEMOCNY, STONAT (ILL, SICK, TO BE SICK, DISEASE)<br>
<img area="2385" src="cid:part2.00070603.07050308@ruce.cz" alt="nemocny"
align="middle" border="0"><br>
(This is funny, because it is the same as ASL sign NAME ;o)<br>
<br>
If you do the contact threetimes it is still ILL, or SICK, but I think
it would be signed by hearing, because it corresponds with the number
of syllables in the word NEMOCNY (ne-moc-ny)<br>
And I think sometimes it could be signed repeatedly to put the accent
on the sign but i think it has to correspond with the facial expression
too.<br>
<br>
Tomas<br>
<br>
Notice: Sometimes it is difficult to discuss SL questions for us,
because we are both hearing and we have SL as second or third language.
I think deaf people would answer these questions better than we.<br>
We would like to have CZJ native signers interested in SW here in the
list, but not everybody can speak english and not everybody is
interested in SW yet. It is a time question ;o) We work on it.<br>
<br>
Charles Butler wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid20050818112724.8991.qmail@web30213.mail.mud.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div><img moz-do-not-send="true" alt="skola_4"
src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-CZ/dict/sl/skola_4.png"
align="middle" border="0">Looking at video, he moves his hand up 3
times. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>ASL consistently does twice for a noun, does Czech do 3 times?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I added this to Czech SignBank as skola_4.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Charles<br>
</div>
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