WILLING | If you mean "willing" as in to confess or acknowledge that something is the case -- the sign for "willing" in ASL is generally the same sign as we use for the concept of "admit." WILLING, admit, confess:
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ADDRESS | Note: Some people do the sign "LIVE" using "L" handshapes on both hands (This is called "initialization"). Again, not worth arguing about. But if your instructor or Deaf friend likes it a certain way, do it that way. LIVE / ADDRESS / / LIFE / SURVIVE
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HOT | Sample sentence: Is the bath water hot?
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GOODHEAVENS | A student asks: How do you sign "Good heavens!"? Answer: "Good Heavens!" is a general interjection in English often used to express a sense of annoyed surprise but it can mean other things as well depending on context and intonation.If you were to sign "good" and "heaven" in ASL it...
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MONEY |
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GRADUATE FINISH, GRAD-SCHOOL [or] WORK YOU VACILLATE YOU?
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NEXT-WEEK HAVE PLAN YOU?
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TWENTY-FIVE-CENTS SUBTRACT 13-CENTS EQUAL WHAT?
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WELD, YOU KNOW SOMEONE CAN?
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DOG, CAT, YOU HAVE EITHER?
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KISS | Many variations on this sign. (Lots of different ways to kiss I reckon.)Don't worry overmuch if someone doesn't kiss the way you do. Er...I mean, doesn't do the sign "KISS" the way you do. In the main version of this sign you form each hand into flattened "O" handshapes and then you bring...
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YOU BRUISE-on-arm! what-HAPPEN?
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RESIDENTIAL-SCHOOL-FOR-THE-DEAF | DEAF-SCHOOL (Version 2)There is another version of this sign that is done similar to the version above except that the base hand is in a palm-down "S"-hand. The dominant hand is still in an "i"-hand and still makes two downward movements.
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HOTDOG | The sign for "hotdog" is made by forming both hands into the letter "C." While moving your hands out to the side, change the handshapes to the letter "S" back to a "C" and to an "S" again. HOTDOG/ sausage / bologna: Memory aid: Think of makingan old-fashioned string of sausages.Note: The...
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CHICKEN | In context, the sign for "chicken" uses the same sign as "BIRD."CHICKEN = BIRD
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NOBODY | The sign for "nobody" combines the signs NONE and ONE.NOBODY = "no one"
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SUN | The sign for "sun" has several versions. Use whatever version your local teacher or Deaf friends use. Here is version of "sun" that is based on the sign "sunlight" (like a ray of sunlight coming down from the sky.) If you just do a small movement, it is interpreted as "sun." If you do a...
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ASK | Movement is forward. Starts in an "index" shape and ends in an "x" handshape.
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VEGETABLE | Vegetables: A: ARTICHOKE:Can fingerspell or can use joke sign(s). Artichoke [ASL pun / idiomatic: A-R-T-I CHOKE! / fs-ARTI + CHOKING! (joke sign)] [version-1]: Artichoke [ASL pun / idiomatic: A-R-T-I CHOKE! / fs-ARTI + CHOKING! (joke sign)] [version-2]: ASPARAGUS:Can fingerspell or...
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MAKE SNOW+MAN, YOU LIKE?
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WE-2, the two of us
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MOOSE | Sample sentence: CAN MOOSE SWIM?
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LAID-OFF | This sign can also mean "summarily dismissed" or "summary dismissal." The sign for "laid off" is an inflected version of "excuse." Do the "excuse" sign firmly -- using an extended (off of the palm) single movement. Laid off: In the pictures above the first two signs would be about the...
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PARTNER | Notes: The sign COUPLE can be used to indicate PARTNER-[romantic] as well. It can also mean THOSE-TWO, PAIR.
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YOU what-NAME?
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