Translating English-to-ASL phrases

[Bill Reese]

Val,
This webpage shows the way I sign "sympathy":
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/s/sympathy.htm


I'm sorry about their loss also.

Bill



On 6/3/2011 10:55 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> June 2, 2011
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> ASL experts. I need help. How do you write "Thinking of you with sympathy" in ASL?
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> A foundation which supports SignWriting lost one of their administrators, and I want to send them a sympathy card in SignWriting... but the ASL grammar is the hard part for me...
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> I went to...
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> ASL SignPuddle dictionary:
> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=4
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> and clicked on the Translate button:
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> And I found the signs for THINK, YOU, LOVE, SAD .... but I have no idea how to really sign that phrase in ASL...
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> So I ended up writing a new phrase "Thinking about you, feel sad, feel love." because I did not know how to sign SYMPATHY...see attached...
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> Can someone help?...how would you write "Thinking of you with sympathy" in ASL?
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> Val ;-)
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