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

Thu Mar 28 20:07:27 UTC 2013

Here's a photo of the sign. How would you suggest I write it. Scribing has
never been my strong suit :)

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann <
stefanwoehrmann at gebaerdenschrift.de> wrote:

>  Hi Erika, ****
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> well I cannot perform that ;-(  although I have an idea what you want to
> show – but right hand up there is the horizontal line of hand and lower
> arm  - nothing that can be rest on the left palm ???****
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> Stefan****
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> *Von:* SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:
> SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] *Im Auftrag von *Erika
> Hoffmann-Dilloway
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 28. März 2013 18:07
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> *An:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> *Betreff:* Re: Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of
> YOUR city and post to the List?
> ****
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> Yes, the right hand comes to rest on top of the palm of the left. Maybe I
> should just have shown them already in contact?****
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann <
> stefanwoehrmann at gebaerdenschrift.de> wrote:****
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> Hi Erika, ****
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> can you explain Kathmandu: ****
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> left flat hand palm up fingers to the right ( no problem)****
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> right hand Index – Hand – palm facing the signer  moving down  - mh  –
>  how to get the touch between the two hands – right hand on top of the left
> hand ?? ****
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> Stefan ****
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> *Von:* SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:
> SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] *Im Auftrag von *Erika
> Hoffmann-Dilloway
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 28. März 2013 17:18****
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> *An:* SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> *Betreff:* Re: Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of
> YOUR city and post to the List?****
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> I don't know ASL, so I don't know a sign for Detroit, Ann Arbor, or
> Oberlin (my US places).****
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> So I'm posting the sign for Kathmandu, the city where I learned to sign! *
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> ****
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> 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.****
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> Boston, Massachusetts****
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> Baltimore, Massachusetts****
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> Berkeley, California****
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> Burbank, California****
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> Adam****
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> On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:****
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> Hi everyone:
> those of us in Boston, Massachusetts sign it thus:
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>  and refer to Berkeley, CA thus:
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> 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****
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com>
> wrote:****
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> SignWriting List****
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> March 28, 2013****
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> NAMES OF CITIES and STATES Around the World****
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> Thank you, Ingvild, Charles and Stefan for your signs!****
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> I would suggest that you add your signs to the International Sign
> Dictionary online:****
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> SignPuddle for International Signs Dictionary****
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> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35****
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> 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…
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> And I hope more names of cities, states, countries and other international
> signs can be added too…****
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> Here is what we have so far…and I really like all four spellings! Thanks
> to you all…****
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> Val ;-)****
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> --
> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Oberlin College ****
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> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Oberlin College ****
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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
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