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Joe Martin Date: Mon Jan 11, 1999 1:15 am Subject: Re: actors | |
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I hate to throw a wet blanket on things, but I see this thread drifting off into linguistic never-never land. So I gave you your answer---but I posted it to Sling-l! (they're the ones that're supposed to like this kind of arcana) (maybe we should all go do our housework!!)) joe On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Cecelia Smith wrote: > 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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