A friend of mine did one of those short dialogues with me last night. I
will load it later, but the English is:
"The two of us looked at the hospital bed and at the clock. The one lying
on the bed was no longer moving. The clock said two oclock. We pulled the
plug as our friend had died."
This uses very few handshapes and is a very poignant story which shows the
facility of sign language to reduce a situation to very few signs and facial
expressions that carry an entire story.
----- Original Message -----
From: Valerie Sutton
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: "ABC Stories" in ASL
> Cecelia Smith wrote:
> >However, I am also familiar with "handshape" stories .. which is what I
would
> >have termed what Val described - using a single handshape for an entire
> >story. For example, the handshape for the nuimber 1 -- using both
hands,
> >you can show 2 people approach, bump into each other, turn away ... look
> >back, come together, walk away together -- end with the sign "friend"
(which
> >uses that hand shape.. basically)
>
>
> SignWriting List
> June 20, 2001
>
> Yes! Cecilia...this is exactly what I was thinking of....Last evening
> I was talking with a linguist on the telephone and I told her of my
> misunderstanding about the ABC stories and she told me that she had
> attended a lecture once, by Bernard Bragg, a Deaf actor here in the
> US. Bernard had mentioned the kind of story you mention above...so
> they did exist...but hard to know if any of them are written down and
> preserved...that would be a great preservation project...to go to the
> Deaf schools to record their literature...
>
> Val ;-)
>
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