Fingerspelling

CrzyMeg

CrzyMeg

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Do you use fingerspelling or no fingerspelling?
 
I don't know what context you mean. In my family fingerspelling is used if I can't understand a word.

Or did you mean by people who exclusively use sign all the time?
 
Bottesini said:
I don't know what context you mean. In my family fingerspelling is used if I can't understand a word.

Or did you mean by people who exclusively use sign all the time?[/QUOTE]

I meant people who exclusively use sign all the time.
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I use finger spelling a lot only just to tickle my friends off. For them, I'm considered the fastest finger-speller. Sometimes, I would just finger spell instead of signing the word. It's a way to emphasize.
 
mebedeaf said:
I use finger spelling a lot only just to tickle my friends off. For them, I'm considered the fastest finger-speller. Sometimes, I would just finger spell instead of signing the word. It's a way to emphasize.
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i can't follow fast finger spelling!!! i may cath some but that's it!!! it throws me off in my asl class cuz i'm still not use to my teacher's way of signing!!!
 
Like any communications, it depends on your reader. if the person I'm signing to is well-steeped in ASL, I need to use very little fingerspelling--just for words needing emphasis or clarification, as Bottesini wrote.

If the reader mostly fingerspells, then I do too -- trying to spell at a speed he or she is comfortable with.

I hate to sound like a booring lanuage teacher, but the purpose of communications is so the receiver will understand what you mean. So writing, signing, or talking to confuse is an agenda other than communications, don't you think?
 
oh...depend on!!! I don't know, how use the strange word in sign? that i used fingerspelling.
 
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CrzyMeg said:
Do you use fingerspelling or no fingerspelling?
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I use fingerspelling for some words that does not have a sign to it. As for the receptive part of fingerspelling - It varies. I am good at reading fingerspelling but when it comes to a person that fingerspells at a lightning speed - That is when I go "Whoa, Whoa! Hold up and slow down a little bit." :lol:
 
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