Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of YOUR city and post to the List?

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

I don't know ASL, so I don't know a sign for Detroit, Ann Arbor, or Oberlin
(my US places).
So I'm posting the sign for Kathmandu, the city where I learned to sign!

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a West Coaster, and I must admit that people get East Coast city
> signs mixed up along with our own city signs. But this is how I personally
> sign the 4 commonly confused "B" cities, since I am very picky and have
> been known to correct people at times. ;-) It seems to match what you sign,
> Kim.
>
> Boston, Massachusetts
>
> Baltimore, Massachusetts
>
> Berkeley, California
>
> Burbank, California
>
> Adam
>
> On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:
>
> Hi everyone:
> those of us in Boston, Massachusetts sign it thus:
> ------------------------------
>
>
> and refer to Berkeley, CA thus:
>
> But some of my signing friends tell me that when you're on the West Coast,
> it's the other way around!
> Best,
> Kim from Boston
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> March 28, 2013
>>
>> NAMES OF CITIES and STATES Around the World
>>
>> Thank you, Ingvild, Charles and Stefan for your signs!
>>
>> I would suggest that you add your signs to the International Sign
>> Dictionary online:
>>
>> SignPuddle for International Signs Dictionary
>> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35
>>
>> I just copied mine for La Jolla, California from the ASL Dictionary to
>> the International Dictionary, and I hope you can do the same for your signs
>> too…
>>
>> And I hope more names of cities, states, countries and other
>> international signs can be added too…
>>
>> Here is what we have so far…and I really like all four spellings! Thanks
>> to you all…
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
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-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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