POLAND sign for GORY

[Charles Butler]

There is no hard and fast rule, the situation of a vista with many hills is just one such scene which is possible to write, but would have a highly inadequate spoken translation.
   
  Charles
   
  

Lucy <lists at onet.eu> wrote:
          
 
    Ah, then the deaf use multiple mountains as it were.  I was misconstruing as some of ASL patterns do a motion across the board once for a verb, twice for a verb.
   
    sit (verb)  chair (noun)
   
   
   
  Charles 


  That's interesting, because such a rule was adopted for some of the Signed Polish nouns and verbs but the motion is done once for a noun, and twice for a verb. In PJM, there is no rule for the motion in verbs and nouns, and many signs may be modified, for example, if you have reached a summit and now watching a wide panorama of mountains, you'll use many motions to "depict" the mountains.
   
  Lucy

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