question for the way to express 'made'

[Shane Gilchrist]

Dear Gan,

we dont really have past tenses in the same sense as the English
language - for instance, in BSL (using glosses - sorry!)

I made food:

- FOOD COOK^nodding
- FOOD COOK PAST
- FOOD COOK FINISHED!

non-manual features are very important here.

Shane


2010/1/6 Gan  Lu <glu at uclan.ac.uk>:
> Hi Charles;
>
>   Thanks for the comment. So do you reckon the past tense is necessary here? And if we use "create". should it be 'Created' then?
>
>  Thanks
>  Gan
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>>>> "Charles Butler" <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> 06/01/10 1:54 PM >>>
> Hmm.  In context the sign, I would think would be either "make" or "create".  The tense is carried by the situation.
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> create
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> ________________________________
> From: Gan Lu <glu at uclan.ac.uk>
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 8:05:15 AM
> Subject: [sw-l] question for the way to express 'made'
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> Dear Adam and Valerie;
>
>   I'm implementing the system now. While I have a question:
>
>     why can't we use an ASL gesture to express the meaning of 'made' on the first page of the 'Frosty the Snow Man', other than using the FingerSpellings to sign these four letters respectively?
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>     I suppose the reason is because the word 'made' is a past tense, and there is no ASL for it.
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>  The reason I'm asking is my intention is to implement the first page as a 4-by-4 output pattern, which are 16 sign-boxes in total includes those punctuations. So I'm looking for a way to squeeze the word 'made' into a box.
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>  Thanks
> Gan
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