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Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Tue Jan 1, 2002 2:42 pm Subject: Re: ARABIA: New Web Posting! | |
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Hi James and Listmembers, thank you very much for this message. I agree. It is the same situation with me. I am in need constantly to look and ask for signs during teaching and "talking " about special events - As soon as the Sign Bank will be established a dream will come true that we can easyly look at the different signs that are used by the DEAF themselves in their countries. A first step can be the list on the SW - List - Valerie collected the signs from the countries where SW is being studied, learned, practiced ... So I guess that these country symbols reflect the signs that are used by the national DEAF signers for their country. Is that correct ? (At least the German sign is the way we in Germany sign it ;-)) ) Besides that I guess many SL in the world show up with other signs for the countries - this would be another list - ha ! How do you spell Germany in your countries ? Happy New Year Stefan ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy A. Kegl" To: Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 4:14 AM Subject: Re: ARABIA: New Web Posting! > I would be interested in the signs for the various Middle Eastern countries. > In Bluefields, Nicaragua, we have signs for some, but not all of them. The > sign for Saudi Arabia, for example, relates to the Black Stone of the Ka'ba. > The sign for Lebanon refers to the green tree on that country's flag > (cedars of Lebanon). Afghanistan and Pakistan mix initializations with a > crescent moon hand sweep. Syria is a lion. Iraq, Kuwait and Iran all have > signs that are variations upon the sign for "oil". The ASL sign for Israel > has been borrowed. > > We discuss Palestine a great deal in current events classes, but I have yet > to see a generally accepted sign for Palestine. > > In any case, we are always interested in knowing what the Deaf people in > their own countries are using. > > -- James > |
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