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deafskeptic said:
Possible. I know a few regional signs like the sign for mean that I learned at VSDB. I've never seen this sign signed anywhere else. Ditto for the sign for brithday that I learned at VSDB,
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What sign for mean did you learn? And what kind of "mean"? Like, "The man is mean" or "No, that's not what I mean"?

I learned a sign for mean (the man is mean) in Indiana that nobody else uses: dominant B-handshape, turned up, and you cross it from your non-dominant shoulder down to your dominant waist. Same orientation and movement as for king or queen.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
It shouldn't. A cyclone and a tornado are two very different things.
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Right. The sign HURRICANE should be used for a cyclone/hurricane/typhoon. The sign TORNADO should be used for a tornado/twister/dirt devil/water spout.

Meteorologically speaking. :)
 
deafskeptic said:
You mean the handshape of the anaylyze sign or how you sign it anaylize? As for the sign travel, I don't use the zz hand shape cuz that's not how I learned it. I was taught to sign it this way: you use the middle fingers of both hands. IT's similar to the cyclone sign except that the middle finger of both hands are used.

I just checked the ASL dictionary and I see how you sign travel and I like this sign better than the one that I was taught.
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I know the sign you've described. Here's the difference between the two "travel" signs, as I observed their use:

TRAVEL (using ZZ hand shape), for describing travel from point A to point B, or on a pathway to a destination. Traveling to a place.

TRAVEL (using twister type sign), for describing movement without a destination, such as when sight seeing in a city, cruising the mall, touring a museum. Traveling around or about a place.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
What sign for mean did you learn? And what kind of "mean"? Like, "The man is mean" or "No, that's not what I mean"?

I learned a sign for mean (the man is mean) in Indiana that nobody else uses: dominant B-handshape, turned up, and you cross it from your non-dominant shoulder down to your dominant waist. Same orientation and movement as for king or queen.
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this sign for mean is done by curling your fingers around your chin and moving your fingers to the other side of chin. Though I prefer that sign, i use the standard sign for mean with most deaf as they're more likely to understand me. This sign that I use is used as in this man is mean.

I use a different sign as in no that's not what I mean. it's done with the V handshape and put against your non domiant hand and done by moving your fingers in what is best described as a diagonial pattern.
 
Reba said:
I know the sign you've described. Here's the difference between the two "travel" signs, as I observed their use:

TRAVEL (using ZZ hand shape), for describing travel from point A to point B, or on a pathway to a destination. Traveling to a place.

TRAVEL (using twister type sign), for describing movement without a destination, such as when sight seeing in a city, cruising the mall, touring a museum. Traveling around or about a place.
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I will keep that in mind. Speaking of travel, many deaf will say they toucn finished a certain place or simply touch a certain place.
 
Reba said:
Yeah, it doesn't come up much except in the spelling of proper names that include double letters. Also, some doubles almost never occur in English (qq, yy, jj).


Where I was taught, the fingers were straight, except when signing PIZZA.

Now, that I think about it, when else do I use a double-Z? :giggle:
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Hah, I think I know that sign for pizza. :D
 
deafskeptic said:
I will keep that in mind. Speaking of travel, many deaf will say they toucn finished a certain place or simply touch a certain place.
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Right. That's mostly for either having visited or the actual visit of a place. The other traveling signs are more about the process of traveling or visiting.
 
Reba said:
Right. That's mostly for either having visited or the actual visit of a place. The other traveling signs are more about the process of traveling or visiting.
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Exactly. If I were say that I've been to to Colorado, I would say in ASL, Colorado touch long time ago. As for Denvar, I would say Denver touch never. I saw Colorado when I was 18. I have never been to Denvar though.
 
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