Need Help From an ASL signer on the List...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 24, 2004

On Feb 24, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Tini Pel wrote:
> Birthday for you happy
> Birthday for you happy
> Birthday  you dear...........
> Birthday for you happy.
>
> Just a try,probably wrong, I'll hear about it I hope
> Tini.

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Dear SW List and Tini!
Ha! Thanks for this suggestion, Tini...You and I are both hearing
people, and I am not native to ASL, so I hope a person who grew up with
ASL will answer this too...

But following your gloss above, Tini, I would not know how to write it
in SignWriting. Which of the four signs for birthday would you choose?
smile....and are you going to write pauses?...Usually in ASL there is a
feeling to sections of sentences that require the writing of a short
pause, or comma....I can show you later...I would think there would be
a couple probably, but without seeing it signed, I would be afraid to
write it...

And how would you sign "DEAR"?....People told me in the past that ASL
doesn't really have a sign for DEAR...using LOVE is a hearing person's
interpretation...

So now, I hope someone will post some SignWriting in ASL and give us an
ASL grammar lesson - we can use it!

Val ;-)

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG>
> To: <SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:37 PM
> Subject: Need Help From an ASL signer on the List...
>
>
>> SignWriting List
>> February 24, 2004
>>
>> Dear SW List Members:
>> A few weeks ago, Stefan in Germany asked if someone could write the
>> "Happy Birthday Song" in ASL for us, in SignWriting? I am not an
>> expert
>> on ASL, and if I wrote it, the ASL signs would be in English
>> word-order, and we all know that is not true ASL...
>>
>> So Stuart, or Adam, or any other ASL signer on the List....I am
>> writing
>> to ask a favor....
>>
>> Can you write "Happy-Birthday-To You" in ASL grammar for us?
>>
>> Type it in SignWriter DOS and post the sentence to the List. If you
>> cannot make a graphics file yourself, then send the SGN file to me and
>> I can convert it for you. Or you can do it yourself, by exporting the
>> file in SignWriter DOS. That will create a BMP. Send me the BMP
>> (smile)....
>>
>> I hope someone will respond!
>>
>> I am very curious myself (smile)...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
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