I don't know ASL, so I don't know a sign for Detroit, Ann Arbor, or Oberlin (my US places).<br>So I'm posting the sign for Kathmandu, the city where I learned to sign! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Adam Frost <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icemandeaf@gmail.com" target="_blank">icemandeaf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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.<div>
<br></div><div><img src=""></div><div>Boston, Massachusetts</div><div><br></div><div><img src=""></div><div>Baltimore, Massachusetts</div><div><br></div><div><img src=""></div><div>Berkeley, California</div><div><br></div>
<div><img src="cid:E60AE87B-E289-439B-A2C1-8475E2DD0F4F" height="36" width="51"></div><div>Burbank, California</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<div><br><div><div>On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone:<br>those of us in Boston, Massachusetts sign it thus:<br><img src=""><hr><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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and refer to Berkeley, CA thus:<br><img src=""><br>But some of my signing friends tell me that when you're on the West Coast, it's the other way around!<br>
Best,<br>Kim from Boston<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Valerie Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com" target="_blank">signwriting@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">SignWriting List<div>March 28, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>NAMES OF CITIES and STATES Around the World</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you, Ingvild, Charles and Stefan for your signs!</div><div><br></div><div>I would suggest that you add your signs to the International Sign Dictionary online:</div><div><br></div><div>SignPuddle for International Signs Dictionary</div>
<div><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35" target="_blank">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35</a></div><div><br></div><div>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…</div>
<div><br></div><div>And I hope more names of cities, states, countries and other international signs can be added too…</div><div><br></div><div>Here is what we have so far…and I really like all four spellings! Thanks to you all…</div>
<div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:2428907F-1756-4773-919E-DE53B744DAE5" height="574" width="359"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway<br>Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>Oberlin College