Handshapes used in ASL

KJ Boal kjoanne403 at SIGNWRITING.ORG
Tue Apr 23 02:22:17 UTC 2013


I also use it for the sign "retire" (or retirement) - it's probably
considered more of a Signed English or SEE variation since it's initialized,
but I believe it's still commonly used around here.

 

http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/glyphogram.php?size=0.7&ksw=M33x24S133
112xn3S13319n28xn3S20600n33xn15S2060011xn13S36d00n21xn24

 

KJ

 

From: SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages
[mailto:SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] On Behalf Of Cherie Wren
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:04 AM
To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
Subject: Re: Handshapes used in ASL

 

third group, 9th sign-- the R with thumb extended--  I have been racking my
brain trying to find a sign that uses that.  Then I though, Duh... and did a
symbol search in the American signpuddle, found all of one match, and that
was a name sign.  How do you evaluate whether that is truly necessary?  Many
people are "thumb signers" ---meaning they lazily leave the thumb sticking
out even when it is not part of the sign/handshape.  There are "pinky
signers" too.  

This is just my first read thru, and looked mostly at what is NOT a regular
ASL handshape.  That is the only one I questioned at all.  I'll give it some
more study to see if there is anything missing from the list...  that is
harder!  Did you look at Stokoe's work to see what handshapes he included as
required in ASL?

cherie

 

 


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From: Adam Frost <icemandeaf at GMAIL.COM>
To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU 
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:27 PM
Subject: Handshapes used in ASL

 

I have been looking at the Symbol Frequency in SignPuddle to see what
handshapes would truly be necessary in ASL. What I did was I added symbols
with high frequency automatically and then looked at the handshapes that had
a low number to judge if the signs written could be written with or with a
different symbol from my personal experience. Below is the list that I have
come up with. I was quite amazed that there were only 83. Are there any
handshapes that you feel I might have errorously ignored or overzealously
added?

 

Adam

 

 
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