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American Sign Language (ASL) signs for superpowers (part 2).
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Superpowers in ASL (Part 2)
Bill Vicars with Cäsar Jacobson
Intended audience: Students who have who have completed Level 2 or higher of the ASL University curriculum.
youtu.be/rv3EsbeVHfI
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American Sign Language (ASL) signs for superpowers (part 2).
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Want to order a USB drive with four semesters worth of ASL video instruction? (ASL 1, ASL 2, ASL 3, and ASL 4) for $79.95?
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For free ASL lessons check out:
lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm
For a great “100 First ASL Signs” resource, see:
lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm
To learn basic fingerspelling see youtu.be/va1aAXpVr2w
Instructor Bio, see:
lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/instructor.htm
Take care and love to you all.
- Dr. Bill
:)
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Superpowers in ASL (Part 2)
Bill Vicars with Cäsar Jacobson
Intended audience: Students who have who have completed Level 2 or higher of the ASL University curriculum.
youtu.be/rv3EsbeVHfI
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![ASL Lexicographer Field Notes (001)
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William G. Vicars, Ed.D., (a.k.a. Dr. Bill of ASL University) is a former full-time, tenured, full-professor, and researcher at Sacramento State University where he served as coordinator of the American Sign Language and Deaf Studies bachelor degree program. He is Deaf. He holds an earned doctorate in Deaf Studies / Deaf Education from Lamar University in Texas, and has over 30 years of experience instructing and providing workshops in a wide variety of settings including internationally (Singapore, Guyana, etc.) in-person and online. He is the director of Lifeprint.com one of the worlds most popular web destinations for learning about sign language and Deaf people. Through his YouTube channel at https://YouTube.com/@sign-language he shares ASL instruction with over 500,000 subscribers. He is married to Deaf culture researcher and pundit Bee Vicars, MFA, who is also Deaf.
Want to order a USB drive with four semesters worth of ASL video instruction? (ASL 1, ASL 2, ASL 3, and ASL 4) for $79.95?
See SuperUSB in the ASLUniversity bookstore at:
https://lifeprint.com/bookstore/bookstore.htm
For free ASL lessons check out:
https://lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm
For a great “100 First ASL Signs” resource, see:
http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm
To learn basic fingerspelling see https://youtu.be/va1aAXpVr2w
Instructor Bio, see:
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/instructor.htm
Take care and love to you all.
- Dr. Bill
:)
Lexicographer-001 PPT Summary:
ASK (request) vs. ASK-to Nuance: = little differences in meaning
Im not asking you. vs Im not asking anything of you.
How do you sign the concept of AUTHOR?
How do you sign the concept of EDITOR? EDITOR (version 1) spell it
EDITOR (version 2) CHANGE (adjust version) + PERSON (non-initialized)
EDITOR (version 3) OMIT (flick thumb version) + PERSON (non-initialized)
VIDEO EDITOR (version 1) MOVIE + CLIP + PERSON (non-initialized)
(video) EDITOR (version 2) IX-(me) + CLIP [shift] CLIP + (context)
Occasionally VIDEO EDITOR = MOVIE + fsEDITOR (or sign) ADJUST or OMIT + PERSON
What is a lexicographer?
A lexicographer is an author or editor of a dictionary. In my case: Lifeprint.com and YouTube.com/@aslu
What are some of the various meanings of this sign? [main, major, career, field of work, profession, discipline (as in a branch of knowledge), etc. ]
What common sign can we use in context to mean produce?
*1. PERSON THEMSELF WRITE, EDIT, OR MAKE DICTIONARY, THAT CAREER NAME WHAT? We could have signed that as: PERSON WHO WRITE, EDIT, OR MAKE DICTIONARY THEIR CAREER WHAT?
IMPACT effect hit (Often uses NMM of Pow!)
to FOOL con fraud trick prank
betray DECEIVE trick
* APRIL to-FOOL fs-DAY, YOU LIKE DECEIVE PEOPLE?
ASSERTIVE and AGGRESSIVE use the same location, handshape, and orientation. The movement of AGGRESSIVE can be a bit more aggressive (ha) but yah, the main difference is the facial expression.
KIND as in kindness, benevolence
KIND as in the type of.
* YOU THINK YOU ASSERTIVE TYPE PERSON YOU?
[Context dependent sign: Bury, burial, cemetery, grave, an elongated hill or mound, etc.]
CL-V: Interment as in the placing of a human corpse in a grave.
CREMATE (human or bipedal)
Show me how to inflect DEAD to mean dying
* HAPPEN YOU DIE YOU PREFER BURY OR CREMATE?
How do you sign the in ASL? Version 1: Use the IX (index) sign.
How do you sign the? Version 2: Use the one-handed sign: THAT-one
Signing Exact English (SEE) has a sign that maps to the English word the. Do you know it?
ASL doesnt use the sign THE but if you are an interpreter you need to be able to recognize it if it shows up on your clients hands.
Multiple meaning sign: city, community, town
During high speed, fluent signing you may see one of the contact points of DEAF dropped when signing DEAF COMMUNITY
If you dont believe me, see 13:43 of (See this video on YouTube)
GREECE international version: index finger taps other index finger. Memory aid: crossroads
GREECE (ASL version) G slides off the nose.
THAI
GREECE (nose version) vs THAI
You should sign the version of GREECE that the Deaf people around you sign. (Recognize both.)
Note that a version of the sign for Rome looks like the ASL sign for NAME.
CRAZY (version 1) Index finger (version 2) Loose hand
LONDON (L-hand version)
* YOU PREFER VISIT LONDON OR GREECE YOU?
ASL Lexicographer Field Notes (001)
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