ASL how to write WHAT GOES AROUND...

[Valerie Sutton]

Stuart wrote:
> Hmm ... That sounds like an English phrase rather than an ASL phrase.
> Or am I getting confused? :)  I don't think that is a literal ASL
> phrase. Adam or Philip, what do you think? Am I forgetting something?
> Stuart

You are absolutely right! That is an English phrase and the person  
asked me how to sign a translation of that into ASL...the meaning  
into ASL...so it might take a paragraph in ASL to explain the meaning  
of the English phrase...

The person wanted the meaning written in ASL...

Probably too hard...

Just like idiomatic phrases in Danish have no literal translation in  
English, but translators can at least write a paragraph in English  
explaining what the meaning behind the Danish idiomatic phrase is ...

There is one in Danish I always loved to quote to show people what I  
mean...it makes no sense in English but it makes a lot of sense in  
Danish!

LIKE THAT IS IT SO MUCH

that is the English gloss for a Danish idiomatic phrase...It means  
something like " that is the way the cookie crumbles" or something  
like that!


idiomatic phrases are not cross-cultural...and this person wants to  
write it in a tatoo on their arm...a SignWriting tatoo!

  the message the person wrote to me said this:



>
>
>         I have looked all over the internet for the symbol of sign   
> writing for  " WHAT COMES AROUND " ,
> Could you possibly e-mail me the symbol. I am getting that as a tattoo
>
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> Thank You,