[sw-l] Sandy's sign for "house"

[Shane Gilchrist Ó hEorpa]

Val,

I re-checked the lovely neat picture u have done - in one way, Sandy got the
sign right - if she's referring to a very big house or a maison or even a
palace.

It makes me smile when people sign Buckingham Palace as "'B' BIG-HOUSE"
whereas in NISL, we sign "QUEEN HOUSE" - interesting, I never recall anyone
bere in Belfast talking about "Buckingham Palace" - oh yes, I remember Agnes
Carberry telling me about it - as her husband was invited to meet the Queen
of England at one of her garden parties - she signed it as "QUEEN HOUSE
LONDON GARDEN BACK-OF-HOUSE PRIVATE-PRIVATE" - long I know.

Sandy's sign in BSL: Palace, maison, big house, UK Parliament


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw-
> l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Valerie Sutton
> Sent: 16 March 2005 01:11
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] New Signs in BSL Dictionary
>
> SignWriting List
> March 15, 2005
>
> Sandy Fleming wrote:
> > Meanwhile, if anyone feels like checking my new signs for spelling
> > mistakes and discussing them on the list, that would be great!
>
> Great, Sandy and Shane -
> This is the perfect opportunity to discuss the other sign for HOUSE
> that Shane sent to me, in a video...The videos were very dark for some
> reason...so the photos are not so good in this diagram, but you can see
> the plam facing. Sandy's writing has a different palm facing than
> Shane's at the end of the sign...perhaps that is just a stylistic
> difference, or a dialectical difference? Should we have both versions
> in the dictionary? Look at the way Val would write it ...Here in the US
> there are many people who change the palm facing of the ASL sign too,
> at the end of the sign, when it goes down, but we do not bother to
> write the finishing position, since people recognize the sign without
> it...we just write the first position and people read the sign just
> fine...
>
> So which version is best for Deaf children in a BSL coloring book?....