Sign for Grass

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rockdrummer

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I know the ASL sign for grass but does anyone know the SEE sign for grass?

Thanks!
 
I don't think there is one but better wait for a SEE user to confirm it.
 
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Even though SEE took many of its signs from ASL there are many that are different. What I am asking for specifically is if anyone knows the SEE sign for grass. Thank you.
 
rockdrummer said:
Even though SEE took many of its signs from ASL there are many that are different. What I am asking for specifically is if anyone knows the SEE sign for grass. Thank you.
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I have met many people who use SEE and I do not remember if the sign for grass was different or the same.

Why not PM some members here who use SEE?
 
I am not sure which members here use SEE. I know some people have talked about it in the past by my memory is failing me right now. Old age kicking in I guess.
 
rockdrummer said:
I am not sure which members here use SEE. I know some people have talked about it in the past by my memory is failing me right now. Old age kicking in I guess.
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Check your PM. :)
 
rockdrummer said:
I am not sure which members here use SEE. I know some people have talked about it in the past by my memory is failing me right now. Old age kicking in I guess.
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Cheri and RedFox I think.
 
Thanks you guys. I appreciate your help. I have sent some PM to see if I can get an answer. :ty:
 
Rockdrummer, I use both ASL and SEE. The sign is the same for both. I have never seen otherwise in my life, so I think you're safe with the sign you know :)
 
From what I can remember about the sign - it is like you sign for foot but with "g" instead of "f".
 
The sign for grass in SEE use your fingers of palm-up claw move up through fingers of left claw several times...

I replied to your pm, rockdrummer. ;)
 
Cheri said:
The sign for grass in SEE use your fingers of palm-up claw move up through fingers of left claw several times...

I replied to your pm, rockdrummer. ;)
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thank you Cheri. That is what I thought that the ASL and SEE signs are different for the word Grass. I have so much frustration because of the differences in the SEE and ASL signs it drives me crazy. Why didn't the people that came up with SEE not use ASL signs as the subset and build around that. That way you would not have any different signs. There would be all of the ASL signs and then the additional signs would be SEE. Maybe I am missing something but it sure seems to me that this could have been possible.
 
rockdrummer said:
thank you Cheri. That is what I thought that the ASL and SEE signs are different for the word Grass. I have so much frustration because of the differences in the SEE and ASL signs it drives me crazy. Why didn't the people that came up with SEE not use ASL signs as the subset and build around that. That way you would not have any different signs. There would be all of the ASL signs and then the additional signs would be SEE. Maybe I am missing something but it sure seems to me that this could have been possible.
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Anyone feel free to corect me if I am wrong. My understanding that SEE was created from the idea of making English accessible to Deaf children and the ASL signs were changed to using the handshape of whatever letter that word started with and then sign that way using the structure of English.

SEE is an artificial system that was devised in 1972. It takes much of its vocabulary of signs from American Sign Language (ASL). However, it often modifies the handshapes used in the ASL signs in order to incorporate the handshape used for the first letter of the English word that the SEE sign is meant to represent. Many new signs were invented, however, especially signs for grammatical concepts. SEE can be thought of as a code for visually representing spoken English, developed primarily for use in deaf education.

Signing Exact English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
shel90 said:
Anyone feel free to corect me if I am wrong. My understanding that SEE was created from the idea of making English accessible to Deaf children and the ASL signs were changed to using the handshape of whatever letter that word started with and then sign that way using the structure of English.

SEE is an artificial system that was devised in 1972. It takes much of its vocabulary of signs from American Sign Language (ASL). However, it often modifies the handshapes used in the ASL signs in order to incorporate the handshape used for the first letter of the English word that the SEE sign is meant to represent. Many new signs were invented, however, especially signs for grammatical concepts. SEE can be thought of as a code for visually representing spoken English, developed primarily for use in deaf education.

Signing Exact English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SEE uses signs from ASL, the modifications are used for representing the affixes, prefixes, suffixes and contractions used in English. The "root sign" remains the same.

For example: grasses = ASL sign for grass with a "s" handshape to represent the plural form - grasses.

Hope that helps.
 
rockdrummer said:
thank you Cheri. That is what I thought that the ASL and SEE signs are different for the word Grass. I have so much frustration because of the differences in the SEE and ASL signs it drives me crazy. Why didn't the people that came up with SEE not use ASL signs as the subset and build around that. That way you would not have any different signs. There would be all of the ASL signs and then the additional signs would be SEE. Maybe I am missing something but it sure seems to me that this could have been possible.
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rockdrummer - The sign that Cheri describes is the one that I have used in ASL. You are using SEE, right? There is a SEE dictionary, Signing Exact English, Gerilee Gustavson and Esther Zawolkow, published Modern Sign Press.

This is an other good resource book: Signing Exact English Using Affixes, compiled by Billie McDavitt and Patrice Stephenson. It is a great resource that show "root sign" and the affixes, prefixes etc. I am pretty sure you can still get it through Modern Sign Press, Inc.
 
Brian said:
From what I can remember about the sign - it is like you sign for foot but with "g" instead of "f".
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That's the one. I should know because I used SEE in a total communication program when I was a child. I use ASL now though.
 
According to SEE II in Arkansas, it is a palm (5 fingers facing upward) on the chin, going up and down...kinda hard to explain.

That's a regional sign. :)
 
loml said:
SEE uses signs from ASL, the modifications are used for representing the affixes, prefixes, suffixes and contractions used in English. The "root sign" remains the same.

For example: grasses = ASL sign for grass with a "s" handshape to represent the plural form - grasses.

Hope that helps.
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Actually, the "root sign" doesn't always remain the same with only a prefix or suffix added. The handshape is quite often changed to indicate an initialized sign: such as using an "s" handshape for "has", a "V" handshape for have, and a "d" handshape for had. The only thing that is retained in these instances, and many others, is the motion of the sign from ASL.
 
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