Need help with ASL Translation

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 12, 2006

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> Hi, Valerie. I thought I would take a stab at this but ran into an  
> interesting spelling situation.
> The signs for heaven in the dictionary don't match what I tend to  
> use. So I tried to add the sign I have always used. Interestingly,  
> this sign for heaven has the left hand slightly above the right  
> hand, then the right hand moves in a half circle forward and out  
> and back then both hands move to the sides. You can see how I  
> attempted to spell that in heaven_3.
> The question ... how do I show that the right hand moves alone  
> first when it does the half circle, but then the right and left  
> move together when they move to the side?
>
>> > IN GOD WE TRUST. YOU ARE IN HEAVEN NOW. WE RESPECT AND LOVE YOU.  
>> YOU WILL REST IN PEACE FOREVER.

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Hi Stuart!
Great to know you are here on the List again. Hope you enjoyed your  
other conference or work you did recently..;-)

maybe you can do a quick video of yourself signing the above sentence  
in ASL for a tombstone? Then we can write it together here on the  
List...I really appreciate this.

At the NAD Conference, old memories came back to me....the old DAC  
members...we used to write by hand! It was so different because when  
we had an arrow that blended with another arrow, we didn't have to  
wait for Val to add the combination arrow to the IMWA! We just wrote  
it and connected any arrows together like that.. Take a look at the  
attached diagram...and I will make it better in Photoshop to show you  
what I mean...


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