Name Sign for Barack Obama?

[Shane Gilchrist]

Kim,

it can be either a 4 or a B - my interpreter today talked about Obama and
she used the tight B handshape :-)

And yes it has to be signed towards the signer - strange eh?

Shane

2008/11/6 Kimberley Shaw <skifoot at gmail.com>

> Hi all:
> any reason why the 2nd handshape in the 1st sign is looking more like
> an ASL "4" rather than a "B"?
> Am also surprised that it faces the signer rather than the viewer ...
> Yes, I'm a nitpicker.
> Best,
> Kim from Boston
>
> On 11/5/08, Shane Gilchrist <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Stefan,
> >
> > following the ASL culture, i ll say the first sign is in much use (in
> fact
> > my ASL interpreters in Amsterdam tend to use it)
> >
> > I noticed on youtube and other sites that a majority of ASL deafies tend
> to
> > use O+B but in a very sharp movement.
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > 2008/11/6 Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>
> >
> >> Well, the first would be simply O+B, the second is O+Change, a very
> >> interesting assessment.
> >>
> >> Charles Butler
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *Stefan Wöhrmann <stefanwoehrmann at googlemail.com>* wrote:
> >>
> >>  Hi sw-list,
> >>
> >> watching the news with DGS interpreter i remembered that I asked for the
> >> name sign of Barack Obama – do you remember –smile?
> >>
> >> Well what I could find on my google –search and looking at you tube
> >> –videos
> >> are two different variations.
> >>
> >> attached you find variation 1 and 2 – can you read the  mouth – symbols
> –
> >> smile?
> >>
> >> I am curious does anybody know more about that?
> >>
> >> Stefan;-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
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