ASL Grammar - "Bored"

[@thrivinginamber2642]

You had a lot of nuances in so many of the signs, and I'm learning. There are a lot more versions of Bored than I was expecting. My coworker signs it more with a closed hand, almost like two handed "Bird" in those locations and facings. I know that sometimes the parameters of a sign can be flexible, with some absolutely important and other parts anything goes, like when I sign "pick-up" with an "8" hand instead of a 9, as long as the point gets across. You showed that there are other things that I can try to express, I'm used to the open-8 twist and poke into forehead for "Sick-of", so many area-signs.

[@thrivinginamber2642]

My class starts next week, and I've been studying my teacher's hand from a few youtube videos, so when class starts, I'll have a little more receptive, and I think it's working, she signs clearly, kinda fast, hopefully I can keep up without overloading too much.

[@thrivinginamber2642]

What are the finer points, differences between signs like "Normal(ly)" the U hand landing on the back of the off-hand, "Usually" both hands stacked, closing while moving downwards, and "Regular(ly)" both pointer hands stacked, top hand makes circles,almost looks like "Work", also the "Normal/fine" mouth position. I kind of get it, but I don't use them "Often" enough, only some of them, "Sometimes".

[@thrivinginamber2642]

So "Regularly" would be something like every Thursday, and "Rhythmically" I can show with classifiers, both hands spread out on surface, the ground thumping, aside from the signs for it. Overlapping meanings is kind of a rabbit-hole, and figuring out which language they overlap in.

[@thrivinginamber2642]

Oh, I accidentally discovered a classifier game, one person signs things as scenery or modes of transportation, and another person constantly moves with classifiers, reacting to the new things signed. Sign "Now Frogs" and the mover becomes frogs. If the signer signs "Moon", then the frogs are now on the moon, or the moon is crashing into the earth or something, it's open to interpretation by the mover, whatever comes to mind, it's fast-paced, reactions instant. At the very least, it should show us how much we already know about how things move, and maybe could be used to teach some of the signing sensibilities that Deaf use automatically but don't think about, so it would work with Deaf and Hearing together, as the hardest thing for me in a signed conversation is figuring out the new context, but ASL has been helping me with my rigidity since I started learning.

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