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From:  Joe Martin
Date:  Mon Jan 11, 1999  12:49 am
Subject:  Re: actors


The "B" hand also turns up as part of ASL signs for... "Art...&...Children,
Die, Elephant, Force, Graduate, Hello, Introduce, Jump, Kill, Let, Mine,
Never, Open, Pay, Quit, Read, Serve, Table, Under, V ?? , Wood, Your,
(I'm stuck on V, ) :-)

All you have to do is read it; the SignWriting symbol for the 2nd letter
of the English alphabet is not the same as....well, other things....

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Bill Reese wrote:

> Ok, true - B hand is not "B" in some cases. I couldn't say whether they
> are exceptions or not. I do know that the "B" hand is used in "beer",
> "brown", "blue", "bitch", "breakfast", "bachelor", "bake", "bastard",
> "be", "bet". In these cases, it's obvious that the "B" hand denotes the
> beginning letter. For ASL, anyway.
>
> Bill

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