Here's a photo of the sign. How would you suggest I write it. Scribing has never been my strong suit :)

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Erika,

 

well I cannot perform that ;-(  although I have an idea what you want to show – but right hand up there is the horizontal line of hand and lower arm  - nothing that can be rest on the left palm ???

 

Stefan

 

Von: SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
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Yes, the right hand comes to rest on top of the palm of the left. Maybe I should just have shown them already in contact?

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Erika,

 

can you explain Kathmandu:

 

left flat hand palm up fingers to the right ( no problem)

 

right hand Index – Hand – palm facing the signer  moving down  - mh  –  how to get the touch between the two hands – right hand on top of the left hand ??

 

Stefan

 

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Betreff: Re: Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of YOUR city and post to the List?

 

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

 

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 ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College




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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College




--
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College