Translating English-to-ASL phrases

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 2, 2011

ASL experts. I need help. How do you write "Thinking of you with sympathy" in ASL?

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...

I went to...

ASL SignPuddle dictionary:
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=4

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...

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... 

Can someone help?...how would you write "Thinking of you with sympathy" in ASL?

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Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
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