new sign

[Stuart Thiessen]

That is interesting. The sign you are asking about is a variation of 
"expensive" in our dialect of ASL here in Iowa. I am not sure why they 
would mouth it as too late.

Stuart

On Oct 31, 2006, at 7:58, CWren at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:

>
> The end part of the sign is the same as expensive, but the starting 
> position is different.  I wish I could remember the whole sentence... 
>  in context it clearly meant too-late, and that was what was mouthed 
> as well.  
> <unknown.gif>                             versus    <unknown.gif>
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> "money-enough-to-throw-away"  versus "more-throw-away?"
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> I agree, i've seen it as "expensive".
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>  CWren at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
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>  Have any of you ASL users on the list seen this sign before?  I ran 
> into it today for the first time... I'm trying to find out if its a 
> new creation (that happens here) or if I've just not seen it but its a 
> common sign.  From context, it means "too late"
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