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Cecelia Smith Date: Sun Jan 10, 1999 10:37 pm Subject: Re: actors | ||||||||||||
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ahhh, you picked a good one here. DON'T KNOW DON'T LIKE DON'T WANT DON'T CARE Those four signs, which require two English words to gloss, are very interesting to me morphologically. The first three start with a part of an actual sign (KNOW, LIKE, WANT) And are negated by a specific movement that brings in negation. DON'T CARE does not have that readily identifiable part (CARE) but still has the negation part. What is that thing on the nose mean? CARE???? I don't think so. But the whole sign means "DON'T CARE" ... HMMMmmmmmm interesting Are they compounds? I think so. But what about DON'T CARE -- what is that from? And what is the negation thing.. that is ONLY found in these limited signs. (if you know of any others, let me know. I'd really like to find more). Sometimes, I think the negation part of these signs must be a remnant left from a much earlier version of the Sign Language we use... much like the prefix "luke" as in "lukewarm" What is luke? And it is ONLY found when describing temperature, and then only with a level of warm. And then there is still "DON'T CARE" Also notice that the negation is specifically identified to mean DON'T .. which is itself a compound of meaning Do and Not ..... can we complicate things more? But your question... was are they 2 signs. No. A compound in Sign Language is not two signs anymore than a compound in English is two words. They are produced as one unit, that's what makes them a compound. Like the English word "cupboard" is a compound of cup and board, and is pronounced more like "kabird" and not "cup-board" ====== another 2 cents. Can you tell I'm avoiding doing housework? Cecelia Smith (~_~) (who read her last message and remembered the concept of Spell Check) In a message dated 1/10/99 5:12:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, writes: > You guys are going to educate me despite myself. > > So then "don't know" in sign language is two symbols? > | ||||||||||||
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