ASL how to write WHAT GOES AROUND...

[Valerie Sutton]

Thank you, Charles...That is really short too...I will tell  
her...think it will fit as a tatoo? smile  Val ;-)





On May 16, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Charles Butler wrote:

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> Me give, me get, same
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> "what goes around, comes around"
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> "What you give is what you get"
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> "What I give is what I get back".
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> Does that work for a free ASL translation?
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> Charles Butler
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> Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> Stuart wrote:
> > Hmm ... That sounds like an English phrase rather than an ASL  
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> > Or am I getting confused? :) I don't think that is a literal ASL
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> 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
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> The person wanted the meaning written in ASL...
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> 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 ...
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> 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
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> LIKE THAT IS IT SO MUCH
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> that is the English gloss for a Danish idiomatic phrase...It means
> something like " that is the way the cookie crumbles" or something
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> idiomatic phrases are not cross-cultural...and this person wants to
> write it in a tatoo on their arm...a SignWriting tatoo!
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> the message the person wrote to me said this:
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> > 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  
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> > Thank You,
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