name sign for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

Thu Feb 28 20:05:01 UTC 2008

SignWriting List
February 28, 2008

Thanks, Stuart and Adam, for your answers...that makes sense...

There is a chance, that as we start writing encyclopedia articles in  
ASL about American history etc, that perhaps written ASL will in time  
give names to historic figures like presidents...because I believe  
that writing spoken languages had that influence on spoken languages  
too...there was a time when people did not have two names...because  
they didn't have contact with very many people...and there was no need  
to differentiate between two people with the same name, but as time  
went by and their names were written etc, second names developed and  
so forth...

So written ASL might give names to some famous people...who knows ;-)

Val ;-)

On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Thiessen Stuart wrote:

> I haven't seen any specific namesigns for the three either. Or even  
> for McCain or Huckabee. In my area, political activism ranges from  
> apathy to full promotion of a particular candidates. Also, events  
> for many years have not been interpreted which cause some to not be  
> involved or even try. Lately, I have noticed the Democratic party  
> being more sensitive to that. For that reason, many politically  
> active Deaf that I know are mostly Democrats. A few I know are  
> Republican.
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> Back to namesigns for ASL, I think, in general, few hearing people  
> have namesigns. My observations have been that namesigns are given  
> only to those hearing people with whom we come into frequent  
> contact. Some US presidents have namesigns, but not all. Some  
> namesigns are invented only for the purpose of school but are never  
> brought into regular use. Most of the time, the names are  
> fingerspelled. I would suppose that if a name became used often  
> enough, a namesign would develop. But again, like Adam says, it  
> would be small pockets of people whose namesign choices may reflect  
> their bias. :)
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> Thanks,
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> Stuart
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> On 28 Feb 2008, at 13:41 , Adam Frost wrote:
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>> I haven't really seen anything in way of name signs for any of  
>> these three. If there are name signs going around, they are  
>> probably small pockets of people who are for (so they have glowing  
>> name signs) or against (with not so nice name signs). However, the  
>> sad fact is that most Americans know less about what is going on in  
>> politics then those in other contries know about what is going on  
>> here. And to make it worst, Deafies are less concerned. :-( Sorry,  
>> but maybe some others have seen some.
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>> Adam
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>> From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
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>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:33:10
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>> Cc:"Frost Adam" <adam at frostvillage.com>
>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] name sign for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
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>> On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>> is anybody able to write the name signs in SW for president George  
>> Bush, Hillary Clinton and  Barack Obama ?
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>> Hi Stefan -
>> Thanks for this great question...
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>> So you are following American politics in Germany? ;-)
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>> I would like to know the name signs for these three American  
>> politicians too...
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>> Adam, Stuart, Philip...Do they have name signs? or are their names  
>> simply fingerspelled?
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>> You might also ask the TeachASL List, Stefan...
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