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I don't know ASL, so I don't know a sign for Detroit, Ann Arbor, or Oberlin (my US places). So I'm posting the sign for Kathmandu, the city where I learned to sign! On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Adam Frost <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am a West Coaster, and I must admit that people get East Coast city > signs mixed up along with our own city signs. But this is how I personally > sign the 4 commonly confused "B" cities, since I am very picky and have > been known to correct people at times. ;-) It seems to match what you sign, > Kim. > > Boston, Massachusetts > > Baltimore, Massachusetts > > Berkeley, California > > Burbank, California > > Adam > > On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote: > > Hi everyone: > those of us in Boston, Massachusetts sign it thus: > ------------------------------ > > > and refer to Berkeley, CA thus: > > But some of my signing friends tell me that when you're on the West Coast, > it's the other way around! > Best, > Kim from Boston > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> SignWriting List >> March 28, 2013 >> >> NAMES OF CITIES and STATES Around the World >> >> Thank you, Ingvild, Charles and Stefan for your signs! >> >> I would suggest that you add your signs to the International Sign >> Dictionary online: >> >> SignPuddle for International Signs Dictionary >> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=35 >> >> I just copied mine for La Jolla, California from the ASL Dictionary to >> the International Dictionary, and I hope you can do the same for your signs >> too… >> >> And I hope more names of cities, states, countries and other >> international signs can be added too… >> >> Here is what we have so far…and I really like all four spellings! Thanks >> to you all… >> >> Val ;-) >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Assistant Professor of Anthropology Oberlin College