Idioms, Puns, and Interesting Signs (Part 3) (Dr. Bill with Lynneah)

[@sign-language]

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[@mirang9884]

Thank you for never stopping to teach. I learn so much and got to much passion from your videos. Seeing that you're getting grey is a bittersweet reminder of the lassing of time, but regardless, you've been and still is an amazing teacher Bill

[@richtaub]

Thanks for the quick lesson. Interesting and always learning something 🤓🙂

[@johnhancock8463]

Thank you

[@elibrown153]

nice ASL video didn’t know there were many ways to say, interest that’s cool

[@suzannewhitaker3507]

My blind friend says, "It's good to see you." It's all good.

[@sign-language]

Exactly!

[@sign-language]

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[@NoahLarsen-w5y]

Hey doc, would it be possible for you to do a workshop on different mouth morphemes and non-manual markers that Deaf and HOH tend to use.

[@sign-language]

Hello Noah! If I did -- it would likely be a very short workshop. Why? Because I feel like a lot of what is taught in mouth morpheme workshops is contrived and overblown. A person decides to do a workshop on mouth morphemes and then they have to populate it with rules and examples. So they come up with a list of "do this and do that" and claim that such and such facial expression means such and such. Half the time I look at the examples and think, "Hmmm, sure, maybe in some contexts but not always." Tell you what -- I'm developing a classifiers (depictive signing) curriculum and I think that certain mouth morphemes pair very well with real-world use of classifiers. Sort of an "applied mouth morphemes" situation where there really is a reason for using the morpheme and not just some vague list of arguable examples. As part of the above mentioned classifiers curriculum I'll start gathering and explaining related mouth morphemes for specific situations. I don't have a timeline of completion for that but will work towards it. Really what people need to do is approach facial expressions like "method actors" approach their craft. Imagine feeling whatever it is you are discussing and then SHOW that feeling on your face. If you are discussing lifting something heavy then what would your jaw, cheeks, and neck be doing? If you are handling something very small what would your lips be doing? If you are discussing being bored then SHOW IT on your face. Then those mouth morphemes just naturally start happening when you are signing and even better they look natural!

[@thrivinginamber2642]

That's what amazes me about watching back my signing, it's instinctive, just a matter of connecting the hand and face movements. My latest homework I signed that the car windows were wide open and my mouth opened wide for it, and showing the passenger in the back I just stepped backward and showed sitting with my posture, like signing "Far", lift off from the plane while moving and set back down, it's a convention that makes it more clear from different angles~

[@NovasYouTubeName]

@@sign-languageamazing explanation!!!

[@thrivinginamber2642]

@@sign-language your comment reminded me of the movie Coda, Troy made the sign for "Cute!" with a Pah!, my first ASL teacher at the time, a Coda herself, copied that when showing us the sign, but that inflection was for a specific moment by very specific characters, all part of the tone, which can't be cut-and-paste into every context, even at six months signing at the time it felt wrong, now I can articulate why. It's like "Music Flock-to" is concert, but "Music Rat Flock-to" could be something specific like the pied piper, which shows how the meaning is in ALL the details together~

[@anyaflowerofsummer4320]

@@sign-languagecant wait to see this!! :DDDD