death to those who don't know what a "dreidel" is

[cimorene]

yeah, not really. just felt like typing that.

american sign language is really, really cool. it sounds nearly impossible to learn for a non-native speaker, which might mean i won't be able to study much about it in my linguistics stuff. maybe read some more, though. hmmm.

i took a long shower to make myself feel better, and it worked, even after i was forced to have too-cakey pancakes from a mix with too-gelatinous lukewarm baked apples on them for lunch (of course i topped this off with yet more buttered raisin bread)! yayayay!

arwen plot bunnies are biting hard, but they're not making themselves clear. what exactly wants to be written? i was going to move on to original fiction.

and not, of course, until the end of the semester for any of this.

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sign of goats

[kwirbx.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about sign language last night because one of the kids at the arcade was deaf. I thought sign language was universal so how could there be an american one vs. some other language? I may be wrong though...

Re: sign of goats

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it's not univeral at all. there are two languages in wide use in the united states, ameslan (american sign language) and signed english, which attempts to make equivalencies to words of english, like a written language in the air, sort of (only it uses one sign per word of course). ameslan isn't like that at all; it's its own language entirely. there's british sign language as well, a totally different language, and others exist all over the world. there's one in nicaragua, for instance, that's very famous.

Re: sign of goats

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i have stage one in BSL (british sign language) but i did get it a couple of years ago and it's all rusty cos i don't know any deaf people here to practice with. at uni it was cool cos i went to deaf youth club (helped to run it really, not attended), but here it's all fading away. all i seem to remember is the signs for food, animals and countries. and the rude words... hee.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

our foreign-language dorm has lunch tables for speaking different languages, including ASL - how cool is that?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

awesome. REALLY cool.