need help with couple of signs

Reba said:
Yes, that's the sign we use in SC also.
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can you describe that sign?
Here, we use the initialized sign with a "t"

two "T" hands, top over bottom, lightly bump the top and bottom hands together a couple of times.
The similar initialized sign we use for car, but with "C" hands.

I was initially taught that the sign for CAR and TRUCK were similar to "DRIVE", but for truck, the hands farther apart.
However, as I've stated in another posts - communication is the key. Not to argue what is and isn't correct.

Accept what your local Deaf community uses, and don't worry about what others tell you is correct or incorrect.
 
two "T" hands, top over bottom, lightly bump the top and bottom hands together a couple of times.
The similar initialized sign we use for car, but with "C" hands.
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This sign is SEE.... ASL sign for car is drive... Truck same unless you talking about semi-truck then you mimic driving a semi. 1 hand on wheel the other shifting gears.

LMM
 
Hmm. I notice that the ASLPRO sign for grass is different from what I was taught.
 
deafskeptic said:
Hmm. I notice that the ASLPRO sign for grass is different from what I was taught.
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I know. I guess it depends on the state. Their "HAY" sign is what we use for "GRASS" and "TRUCK".
 
Reba said:
Go to ASLPRO.com and look up "HAY". That's the sign we use for pickup truck.
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oh boy... that's why a hearing guy like me trying to learn sign is very frustrated. I guess thats where fingerspelling comes in. I hate fingerspelling.
 
Reba said:
Go to ASLPRO.com and look up "HAY". That's the sign we use for pickup truck.
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EXactly why I wasy that in oder to communicate, one has to learn the local "dialect".

Learn what signs are used locally....and go with them.

Locally, I haven't seem the sign described for "truck".

as any language, ASL evolves. Things evolve differently in different parts of the country. As they evolve, things that one says is SEE and another says is ASL become one, and more widely accepted as ASL.

I just go with the flow.
 
rockdrummer said:
oh boy... that's why a hearing guy like me trying to learn sign is very frustrated. I guess thats where fingerspelling comes in. I hate fingerspelling.
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The problem with fingerspelling is that not everyone understands the words that are spelled. Even if you spell it perfectly and clearly, if the person on the receiving end says/signs, "what does that mean?" or "I've never heard of that" or "who's that?" or "huh?" then communication isn't happening.
 
I have a question for anyone that can answer it.

To sign "on time" what would I use. If I were to ask "are you always on time to work?"

If I just want to ask someone if they're "on time" ....
 
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