http://www.boroday.info/american-sign-language-emotions/
Sign Language words help!?
Hey evryone! I’m working on teaching myself american sign language and I’ve run into just a few problems.
How do you sign:
Away
Somehow
Now
Emotion
Second (time)
month
year
hour
minute
thousand
million
hundred
week
weekend
go
Another question- some of my friends are also learning asl. They are driving me insane because they know what a certain word is in asl and I don’t. They are TORMENTING me by doing the sign over n over n refusing to tell me what it is! The sign is made by taking the 3 handshape and turning it horizntally. The horizontal 3 thingy starts at one side of your mouth, then moves horizontally across to the other side with the three extended fingers moving in and out. Any ideas??ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!
Well, thats all for now….thank you all so much in advance!
Hmm… for some of those signs, you need to be more specific as to the context in which you’re speaking. ASL is very contextually focused, so there are sometimes many different signs that correspond to one english word (for example… there are at least 5 ways to sign “break”).
Away- Need context.
Somehow- Need context.
Now- same as TODAY. take two Y-handshapes, palm in, and move them down in neutral space.
Emotion- Take the E handshape, and run it up your chest (similar to “FEEL”). Typically uses both hands.
Second- you can fingerspell S-E-C, or sign something similar to MINUTE… i can’t really explain that one.
Month- Take your subordinate hand, in the 1 handshape, palm out, in neutral space. Take the dominant hand, 1 handshape (for 1 month), palm in, and run it horizontally down your pointer finger. (does that make any sense?)
Year- start with your S handshapes, palm in, dominant hand on top of the subordinate hand. Move the dominant hand in a circle (go outwards first, and go around the other hand… away from you, underneath it, towards you, and end on top of the other hand again).
Hour- Subordinate hand, palm to the side, open B handshape. Move your dominant 1 hand in a circle.
Minute- hard to describe.
Thousand- Take the bent B hand, and touch it to the subordinate open hand one time.
Million- touch it two times.
Hundred- hard to describe. Generally, you’d hold the number of hundreds, then pull it back into a C handshape.
There are a few good ASL dictionaries online, which have some videos and will probably be easier to understand than my descriptions:
commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
http://www.aslpro.com/
those are good ones. I can try to describe things better if you’d like.
I’m not sure what your friends are signing… I am curious if they’re messing up the sign for dry, or complex, or ugly? it’s possible. Try to describe it again, maybe?
American Sign Language Emotion Words : American Sign Language: Mellow & Hyper
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