Instructional Days

ASL 103

cuz sometimes you just can't BE there!

Week Two:

Video of Gil Eastman

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Week Thre:

Video of Howie Seago

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Week Four:

Video of MJ Bienvenu

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Week Five:

Video of Bernard Bragg,

"Lessons in Laughter Vol. 1"

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Week Six:

Interpreters

View the PowerPoint presentation prepared by Sinay

Interp_PP_for_103.ppt

Week Eight:

Idioms: English and ASL

See Below

Week seven:

Performance Signing

Research ASL performance signing

Take a look at Trix Bruce and some vids on myspace, like this one.

Do some of your own research too.

of course, the BEST interp clip ever... ICE ICE BABY

Week Nine:

Poetry

TRY NOT TO MISS THIS ONE!!!

Week Ten:

Performances

YOU do performances!

Week One:

What do you think of this format??

Idioms are words and phrases that are not taken literally, but have a cultural meaning beyond the literal meaning. Understanding idioms is part of being fluent in any language. Below are English idioms. Figure out how to sign them, conveying the cultural meaning rather than a literal translation.

American English Idioms

Kick the bucket

Hold yer horses

Dead to the world

Eat crow

Let yer hair down

Put your foot in your mouth

Throw your weight around

Get wind of

Cut it out

Hit it off

Take you for a ride

Wind around your little finger

Iron in the fire

Make a clean breast of it

Give a piece of my mind

Ace in a hole

Add fuel to the fire

After ones own heart

Along for the ride

Ask for the moon

At ones fingertips

Beat around the bush

Cough up the dough

Bite the hand that feeds you

Coast is clear

Do a double take

Down in the dumps

Needle in a haystack

Not with a ten foot pole

Horse of a different color

Heard it through the grapevine

Go for the gusto

Stick your neck out

Get on my nerves

Separate the men from the boys

Right up your alley

Throw in the towel

Edge of your seat

Kill two birds with one stone

Let the cat out of the bag

Grab the bull by the horns

Butterflies in my stomach

Got up the nerve

Blown me over with a feather

ASL has idioms as well. As with any language, sometimes the idioms doesn't tranlate or have the same cultural meaning in another language. I will try to describe how to sign them.

ASL Idioms

TRAIN ZOOM- "That ship has sailed"

FISH SWALLOW- gullable

PATIENT TOILET-   can’t wait any more

BIG MOUTH - (signed like TABLE, but the arms open and close)

means:talks too much or a person who moves their mouth too        much

THINK-HEARING: sign HEARING at forehead. Shouldn't be used by        hearing people, means "you think/act/kowtow to hearing                     people"

ZERO-BRAIN- Zero on forehead "stupid, ignorant"

SICK-ON-THAT- sign SICK then directionalize it. "ick"

STICK BRAIN- 8 handshape, opened, then close on forehead. "I will         remember that!

N-G- sign N then G  "no good"

T-B- sign T then G  "too bad"

THIRSTY- means lust

DROOL- lust, want that a lot

I, I, I, I- signed at waist- means brag

PEA BRAIN: G hand shape at forehead, twists and touches head- means stupid

Daffy: Y on forehead- flaps

Brown noser- B handshapes rub side of nose, palm out

Nosey/big nose- outline nose, exaggerating it largely

BS- arms crossed, top hand with index and pinkie extended, bottoms showing pooping.

By a hair- pull a hair (not literally!)

Riding the fence-

‘love it’- kiss your fist!

boiling in anger

blow my top

waste money- "toss money" out of pockets

talking to self- "I" handshapes circle from side of face to meet in front and tap

blow right by me

blow… nothing

THINK DEAD-  I couldn’t believe it

SUPPRESS

Keep mum: PRIVATE then second hand covers 1st.

Learned my lesson, blew up in my face:  O handshape on nose, to 5

HUH?

So much to think about: K, both hands, wiggle in front of eyes

Push out of my mind: use 4 handshape

Dwell on: think, obsess

Right around the corner: F on nose, move out and down, P/O down

Extremely complicated: wiggle X in X movement crossing in front of body

Pretend: open and close flat O on side of mouth- palm orientation, back

Barely getting by: 8 alternates off chin

Budget money- tight circle of flat Os

Holier than thou: 7 off mouth, like innocent

I am out of here: G moves to closed G

THINK YOURSELF - you decide

YOURSELF, YOURSELF: Take care of it yourself:

Waste Time: throw away time

Gobble up

Drink too fast

HA HA behind head

Falling in love

Soft heart

Tough heart: F handshape tap at heart

Fooled me: A handshape hits 1 HS

Rolling on the floor laughing

Nothing to do: ear and lip flip

Fall Asleep: As hit

Far: wiggle 1 way out there

WOW S hand at eyes

Need proof: pull eyelid down

Expert: same as neat

Not my responsibility: flick 8s at shoulder

Missed it: 4 hand down in front of face

Passed me by: 4 hand up and in front of face, WHEW

Nothing to it: F hands back and forth

Puzzle

Jump for joy

SLAM index or middle finger slam between finger of other hand

Over my head

Butt heads: Confront using Y hand

I have no idea: ???? with 4 hand

All Gone: Blow on hand

Touch finish: been there

Disgusting: upset stomach

Shock: jaw drops with bent V

Finish, Zero, Finally are sometimes called idioms, but they are not true idioms.

They are used often, but the meaning doesn’t change.

FUNNY-NONE just means not at all funny

SEE-NONE means I didn’t see it.