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Joe Martin Date: Fri Jun 30, 2000 11:19 am Subject: Peace sign | ||||||||
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Regarding message # 3593 and 3591 (in the archives) I felt this is interesting. Reading this symbol/spelling, there is no indication that the right hand would turn back over again so that both palms faced the floor. And Valerie's explanation confirms that we are reading it right--that doesn't happen, and the hands end one palm up, one palm down. Personally, when I sign ASL "peace" I turn my right hand palm down. Maybe this is a regional variant, or maybe I just do it wrong,(???) but anyway, when i first read the sign, before i really looked at it, that is how signed it. (Yeah, I admit it--I tend to read out loud [or whatever]. Then, when my attention was drawn to it and I went back and tried to sound it out [or whatever] it just seemed somehow wrong to do that, even though that is what it said to do. And Stefan writes that his intuition was the same as mine; somehow, for some reason, we both felt that the palms should both end facing down. Hmmmm.... One of the rules of ASL phonology says that if both hands in a sign move, then they have to be doing the same thing. In my case, that seems to have something to do with it, but Stefan doesn't know ASL. Sooo... does German sign Language have that same phonological rule? If not, what goes on? We are both wanting to pronounce it differently from the way we both saw it spelled. Yikes! _______________________________________ Joe Martin, Plain Old Ordinary Student Top Left Corner USA | ||||||||
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