[sw-l] haiku classifiers

[Sandy Fleming]

Me again!

Interesting. Of course, different sign languages are different.

The sign for "branch" I used is definitely correct BSL. Having defined the
branch like this I can't really put the bird anywhere else - for the purpose
of the poem it has to go on that bare branch. So I think I've got it right,
but next time somebody talks about birds and trees in BSL, my eyes will perk
up to see what they do!

I've just looked up the Black Book (the big BSL dictionary) and the branch
is signed curving upwards in the photograph, but -hmmm... that's just not
how I saw the branch when I read the poem!

Sandy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Nancy Emery
> Sent: 26 October 2004 00:44
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: [sw-l] haiku classifiers
>
>
> It's also interesting the way the classifiers seem to work in BSL as
> compared to ASL. When I think of showing a bird perching on a
> branch in ASL,
> the branch is one of the fingers on the tree-hand (probably the
> thumb).  Or
> if I wanted to show a fat curving branch with a classifier like you did, I
> feel like I'd have to make a trunk with a classifier first.  But I'm not a
> native signer, just a hearing person who loves poetry, stories and
> classifiers, so I could be wrong.
>
> Nancy Emery
>
> on 10/25/04 7:48 AM, Sandy Fleming at sandy at FLEIMIN.DEMON.CO.UK wrote:
>
> > There's a new item now, a translation of a traditional Japanese
> haiku. Yes,
> > I'm starting small  :)
> >
> > http://bsltext.org/poems/basho.asp
>
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