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Last week was my ASL course’s chapter on Description, covering appearance, colour, location, and materials. Flexible, durable, and strong, Leather is the material for clothing, furniture, tools, and sports equipment. For this ASL hand sign for Leather, I went with a young outdoorsman wearing the tanned hide’s more famous garment, the Leather Jacket.
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I finished My ASL Dictionary in 2020, but as my education in American Sign Language continues, I create new ASL illustrations. After accuracy, the second challenge for these cartoons is finding an original character to model the ASL word (the better ones with a connection to the word itself). Instead of a dressmaker working with cloth, a man in a partially-wrapped mummy costume shows the hand sign for Material,Fabric, and Cloth (I guess it’s lucky he missed making an appearance for my Halloween classes).
The Flat O hand signs, palms up, are held slightly apart as the fingers slide across the thumbs a few times. The visual of hands feeling the texture of cloth.
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Happy Mother’s Day!!
An update of one of my earlier animations, My ASL Dictionary’s Queen of Hearts, shows the ASL hand sign for MOTHER. Like the ASL hand sign for Father, both Parents are illustrated as Royalty, the Rulers of the Kingdom.
The Thumb of the 5 hand taps the middle of the chin twice.
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For Today’s quick and almost painless dental appointment at Dawson Dental, the upgraded cartoon of a vampire showing the ASL sign for Dentist. With a mouth filled with anaesthesia, gauze pads, and dental tools, ASL is the better form of communication (as talking is next to impossible). My Dentist loved this cartoon and expressed interest in Sign Language. I referred him to my ASL courses at Conestoga College, the University of Guelph’s ASL club, and told him about my cartoon dictionary.
My ASL Dictionary has a cheeky vampire, a creature that would appreciate dental care the most, wearing a bright blue gown with a matching vampire collar, showing off his pearly whites and the ASL hand sign for DENTIST.
The edge of the Extended A hand sign lightly taps the cheek with the pinkie finger Twice, a possible visual for the dental tools inserted into the mouth.
The other hand sign for Dentist combines the signs Tooth and Agent.
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With my next ASL course in two weeks, I found myself another project to finish first, close captioning. I’m posting the narrative assignment from the last class. My building is very noisy during the day (very distracting), so I filmed the video late at night. Unfortunately, the recording was still interrupted by people walking into my room, forcing me to start from scratch again and again. Viewing the video, I can see how tired I was, with my eyes barely open and the fatigue in my fingertips. I don’t know which online apps are safe for subtitling videos, so I’m using this “Cow Story” for my first attempt at subtitles with PowerPoint Presentation. This way despite my mistakes, people watching can still understand the story.
The subtitling project is taking longer than expected. I’ve already had the txt I prepared on my notepad disappear, and even worse, in the midst of the project, my entire computer shut down. As I’m past the middle of my story, I’ll take a break and focus on reviewing my ASL chapters before the next class begins.
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