New Signers' Funny Mistakes - Page 7

CJB · 09-25-2009, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by souggy

MONTH - two index fingers. The passive hand is static, pointing upright. The dominant hand is sideway. The dominant hand go behind the passive hand and slide down it.

There are two way of doing CONDOM. One is similar to the above, but instead of the dominant index finger sliding down behind the passive index, it is infront of the passive index. The other is making an O-shape with the dominant hand, then sliding down the passive index finger (... like putting on a condom.)

Oh okay. Whew, I've been signing month right.

souggy.

CJB · 09-25-2009, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by souggy

Funny story:

At an all-Deaf cafe, my mom went to get breakfast at the Manitoba School for the Deaf. They weren't allowed to speak at all, well the workers wouldn't know spoken English anyway. So she forgot the sign for toast. So she signed "brown bread."

What came out was "beer and bread."

Wee! Someone want to get smashed at 6 in the morning!

SerendipityG3A · 09-25-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bramus

I'd wish I'd kown that first one >.<

Apparently I've been signing A***HOLE instead of CLUELESS until one of my professors corrected me in class the other day

Looking back, I've used that sign a lot...

Yikes! After reading this thread, maybe I ought to take an ASL class just to make sure I'm not swearing all over the place! I was raised more or less on SEE, but I was taught by adult hearies who learned from a SEE dictionary, which was at the time a completely new concept if I understand my history correctly, and I have no contact with other deaf, so everybody thinks I'm the authority on signing since I'm the only deaf.

thanx2gezus · 09-25-2009, 09:10 PM

This thread is great!

I once signed 'happy' wrong.... I substituted 'enjoy' so that what was supposed to be 'I'm happy' didn't quite turn out right. :/

souggy · 09-25-2009, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CJB

Oh okay. Whew, I've been signing month right.

souggy.

Yeah... just realized with the second sign for CONDOM.. it's done with the F-hand, not the O-hand. You just slide the loop over the index finger; still have to be upright (pointing to the ceiling) though, or it would means something else.

CJB · 09-25-2009, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by souggy

Yeah... just realized with the second sign for CONDOM.. it's done with the F-hand, not the O-hand. You just slide the loop over the index finger; still have to be upright (pointing to the ceiling) though, or it would means something else.

JennyB · 09-26-2009, 05:59 PM

Today a girl told me she is a "Red rapist". Turns out she meant to tell me she works at a restaurant...

CJB · 09-26-2009, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JennyB

Today a girl told me she is a "Red rapist". Turns out she meant to tell me she works at a restaurant...

Bottesini · 09-26-2009, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by JennyB

Today a girl told me she is a "Red rapist". Turns out she meant to tell me she works at a restaurant...

Bet you had a moment of shock there.

JennyB · 09-26-2009, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bottesini

Bet you had a moment of shock there.

Yeah, that's for sure.

KSUASL1214 · 09-27-2009, 04:50 AM

My funniest moment was when I was talking to my ASL coordinator of the ASL program at my university. I was in ASL 4 at the time this happened. I had meant to say I was meeting with a friend and I accidentally said F*ck instead. She was like your hands aren't working today are they? I was like no they are not and we both laughed at that for awhile before we finally got talking to what we originally we supposed to talk about.

The next funny moment of signing words incorrectly was when I was in my ASL 2 class and one of my classmates meant to say dentist and said asshole. it was really funny because my teacher was like you mean to say dentist not this. It was really funny, I will never forget that!

Passionate4ASL · 09-29-2009, 12:35 AM

I was leaving class one night and I was trying to tell the Professor, "see you tuesday" instead I signed..."see you..in the bathroom"?!? I could have died of embarrasement!

SerendipityG3A · 10-05-2009, 10:01 PM

My dad told me tonight at supper while he was trying to learn to sign, "I'm long, but I'm getting better, asshole!" My mom corrected him, "I'm slow, but I'm getting better." I've never seen my mom laugh so hard!

CJB · 10-05-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by SerendipityG3A

My dad told me tonight at supper while he was trying to learn to sign, "I'm long, but I'm getting better, asshole!" My mom corrected him, "I'm slow, but I'm getting better." I've never seen my mom laugh so hard!

ASLGAL · 10-15-2009, 11:32 AM

Fun/Funny thread

Nice to know novice and experienced signers are all making mistakes and learning from them.
I appreciate my D/deaf friends pointing out an error when I make one

Finally finishing up ASL Apps levels.
The Sex,Drugs,Rock and Roll classes both informative and funny. I know now, there is a reason that curse vocab and sensitive signs are not introduced to ASL1-6 levels - haha

kcan · 10-16-2009, 08:22 AM

Have a question- is the sign for "soda pop" also a sexual sign? It's the one where the middle finger is in closed fist and then is "slapped" on fist?

ASL teacher at a local high school insists that is a sign for "f**k". She brings it up because the above sign is in ASL book and she TELLS every class that!?!

tofer · 10-16-2009, 12:49 PM

A guy in my ASL one class wanted to make a sign for LONG, and stuck his middle finger out first instead of his pointer. Very fun sign name he has

tofer · 10-16-2009, 12:52 PM

Oh, also, a mistake on my behalf. The book we currently use for class apparently has a variation of the sign for READY. I was curious because it was a different sign from one the teacher had taught us previously, so I had to ask. She snatched up the marker and wrote DANGER on the board. Apparently the book version implies "ready to f---?". I learned quickly to avoid that

SerendipityG3A · 10-16-2009, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tofer

Oh, also, a mistake on my behalf. The book we currently use for class apparently has a variation of the sign for READY. I was curious because it was a different sign from one the teacher had taught us previously, so I had to ask. She snatched up the marker and wrote DANGER on the board. Apparently the book version implies "ready to f---?". I learned quickly to avoid that

Oh-oh! I only know one sign for "ready" so I have to ask, which sign is it? I need to make sure it isn't the sign my family uses

jillio · 10-16-2009, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by kcan

Have a question- is the sign for "soda pop" also a sexual sign? It's the one where the middle finger is in closed fist and then is "slapped" on fist?

ASL teacher at a local high school insists that is a sign for "f**k". She brings it up because the above sign is in ASL book and she TELLS every class that!?!

I've never seen the sign for soda pop used for the word you mentioned.

I have seen, and used, a different sign for that.

tofer · 10-16-2009, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SerendipityG3A

Oh-oh! I only know one sign for "ready" so I have to ask, which sign is it? I need to make sure it isn't the sign my family uses

It is an R with both hands, starting with the two R's crossed over one another, then uncrossing them. It was described (visually, thanks to my hilarious Teachers Assistant), as the spreading of legs. It might be a local thing?

SerendipityG3A · 10-16-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tofer

It is an R with both hands, starting with the two R's crossed over one another, then uncrossing them. It was described (visually, thanks to my hilarious Teachers Assistant), as the spreading of legs. It might be a local thing?

Okay, good, it's not the one we use here

kcan · 10-17-2009, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by jillio

I've never seen the sign for soda pop used for the word you mentioned.

I have seen, and used, a different sign for that.

Thanks and good to know someone hasn't seen it used that way. Guess that teacher is just full of it or she's a perfect example for this thread.. would be funny, except she's teaching that as a "fact" in her classes..

Bramus · 10-18-2009, 10:47 PM

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Have a question- is the sign for "soda pop" also a sexual sign? It's the one where the middle finger is in closed fist and then is "slapped" on fist?

That's the sign I use for SODA-POP. Maybe the meaning could be changed with facial expression? Kinda like BUG and ORGASM

sima1289 · 10-19-2009, 12:49 AM

my example isn't a mistake i made, but something my teacher brought up.

i was taking a 2-week asl course (5 days a week, for 3 hours each day) last school year, and in 1 of the first classes, my teacher was showing a kid how to sign "thirsty". she then said that repeating the sign for "thirsty" (running your pointer finger down you throat) means "sexual desire" or something like that. needless to say, some boys in the class (there was a 9th grader in the class) made the supposed sign for "sexual desire" constantly in that class.

but is what my teacher said true? she isn't deaf, but she's been signing for a long time

SerendipityG3A · 10-19-2009, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by sima1289

my example isn't a mistake i made, but something my teacher brought up.

i was taking a 2-week asl course (5 days a week, for 3 hours each day) last school year, and in 1 of the first classes, my teacher was showing a kid how to sign "thirsty". she then said that repeating the sign for "thirsty" (running your pointer finger down you throat) means "sexual desire" or something like that. needless to say, some boys in the class (there was a 9th grader in the class) made the supposed sign for "sexual desire" constantly in that class.

but is what my teacher said true? she isn't deaf, but she's been signing for a long time

Weird, I've always used my middle finger (of (palm in) 5 hand) for thirsty, but I looked it up, and you're right. Is mine a local variation or a common variation?

I think if I wanted to say sexual desire, I'd put a loose palm-forward x by my eye and slide the pointing finger down my face sort of suggestively across the corner of my mouth as the hand turns around to palm-back and the finger straightening itself as it goes. Sort of as if I'm drooling and wiping the drool off the corner of my mouth. I doubt that's in the dictionary, so I won't even try looking it up. So far, half the signs I've encountered here on AD have been different from the ones I use here at home. But, I was taught by a bunch of hearies who learned to sign from a book.

Hutt5asl · 10-27-2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Bottesini

Bastard. Do it lower by the mouth or chin and it is Bitch.

Okay, I have a question... My daughter did a fingerspelling video on YouTube, fingerspelling the names of the Jonas Brothers (she's a huge fan) and a couple of lines from their songs... One of the songs is "Be Be Good" The line is "You gotta be be good to me... I'm gonna be be good to you..."

Now, I had learned (online, back when I was first learning) to do "be" by making the letter "b" with the inside edge of the hand against the chin ... the same as you are saying means b*tch

, if I understand it right...

so what's the correct sign if you need to sign "be"? (There were a few comments on the video that she was saying "b*tch")...

Hutt5asl · 10-27-2009, 07:08 PM

I just went to a Deaf meet at our local mall last night. I was corrected on how I was signing "make". My husband and I love coffee and drink a few cups together every day, around my busy schedule. LOL My husband is disabled so I make the coffee for us. I taught him how to sign "make coffee please", by signing "make" with two fists twisting one on top of the other... I was told that that's the sign for "making out"!

He got a kick out of that one!

I was told to avoid that by signing "make" with two fists, and the right fist kind of bangs across the top of the left fist (make sense?)

On a side note, he teases me and signs "make coffee...", I raise my eyebrows, waiting for the "please" LOL and he signs "now!" by jabbing his index finger down. I say, "Oh, you want coffee down?"

Then I showed him the sign for "now". He still insists on doing it his way.

ASLtees · 10-28-2009, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Hutt5asl

Okay, I have a question... My daughter did a fingerspelling video on YouTube, fingerspelling the names of the Jonas Brothers (she's a huge fan) and a couple of lines from their songs... One of the songs is "Be Be Good" The line is "You gotta be be good to me... I'm gonna be be good to you..."

Now, I had learned (online, back when I was first learning) to do "be" by making the letter "b" with the inside edge of the hand against the chin ... the same as you are saying means b*tch

, if I understand it right...

so what's the correct sign if you need to sign "be"? (There were a few comments on the video that she was saying "b*tch")...

ASL doesnt use forms of TO BE or NOT TO BE

that is SEE

BUT so ya know be is a B hand on the chin and moves outward FROM the chin. also

B#@h is a B brought TO the chin

thats how I learned it anyways

as for "You gotta be be good to me... I'm gonna be be good to you"

I would sign: YOU NEED NICE ME ..... FUTURE ME NICE YOU

Hutt5asl · 10-28-2009, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ASLtees

ASL doesnt use forms of TO BE or NOT TO BE

that is SEE

BUT so ya know be is a B hand on the chin and moves outward FROM the chin. also

B#@h is a B brought TO the chin

thats how I learned it anyways

as for "You gotta be be good to me... I'm gonna be be good to you"

I would sign: YOU NEED NICE ME ..... FUTURE ME NICE YOU

Thanks! I know ASL doesn't use BE, but since it was a repeated lyric of the song, at the time, I thought I needed to sign that... As I said, this was when I was first learning, and I have since learned that I don't need to necessarily sign THE words that are there... like what you suggested.

I've been trying to sign more correct ASL grammar, but I keep reverting to PSE. ha ha

I think also, the difference between BE and B**CH might be a little hard to distinguish if someone is signing fast? I think I'll just stay away from that one!

09-25-2009, 09:10 PM	#184 (permalink)
thanx2gezus Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 51	This thread is great! I once signed 'happy' wrong.... I substituted 'enjoy' so that what was supposed to be 'I'm happy' didn't quite turn out right. :/ __________________ "But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed." - Habakkuk 2:3, Bible

09-26-2009, 05:59 PM	#187 (permalink)
JennyB Deaf Activist! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 784	Today a girl told me she is a "Red rapist". Turns out she meant to tell me she works at a restaurant... __________________ Queer, Deaf, radical disability theorist, feminist, activist, advocate, and linguist. Fear me! Jenny~B http://journysofadeafgirl.blogspot.com/

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KSUASL1214 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 15	My funniest moment was when I was talking to my ASL coordinator of the ASL program at my university. I was in ASL 4 at the time this happened. I had meant to say I was meeting with a friend and I accidentally said F*ck instead. She was like your hands aren't working today are they? I was like no they are not and we both laughed at that for awhile before we finally got talking to what we originally we supposed to talk about. The next funny moment of signing words incorrectly was when I was in my ASL 2 class and one of my classmates meant to say dentist and said asshole. it was really funny because my teacher was like you mean to say dentist not this. It was really funny, I will never forget that! __________________ Before communicating with a person, think about what you are going to say.

09-29-2009, 12:35 AM	#192 (permalink)
Passionate4ASL StormyStarySkies Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: South Florida Posts: 277	I was leaving class one night and I was trying to tell the Professor, "see you tuesday" instead I signed..."see you..in the bathroom"?!? I could have died of embarrasement! __________________ JennieLynn

10-15-2009, 11:32 AM	#195 (permalink)
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10-05-2009, 10:01 PM	#193 (permalink)
SerendipityG3A Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 77	My dad told me tonight at supper while he was trying to learn to sign, "I'm long, but I'm getting better, asshole!" My mom corrected him, "I'm slow, but I'm getting better." I've never seen my mom laugh so hard!

10-16-2009, 08:22 AM	#196 (permalink)
kcan Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 7	Have a question- is the sign for "soda pop" also a sexual sign? It's the one where the middle finger is in closed fist and then is "slapped" on fist? ASL teacher at a local high school insists that is a sign for "f**k". She brings it up because the above sign is in ASL book and she TELLS every class that!?!

10-16-2009, 12:49 PM	#197 (permalink)
tofer ASL Student Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Storrs, CT Posts: 8 Blog Entries: 1	A guy in my ASL one class wanted to make a sign for LONG, and stuck his middle finger out first instead of his pointer. Very fun sign name he has

10-16-2009, 12:52 PM	#198 (permalink)
tofer ASL Student Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Storrs, CT Posts: 8 Blog Entries: 1	Oh, also, a mistake on my behalf. The book we currently use for class apparently has a variation of the sign for READY. I was curious because it was a different sign from one the teacher had taught us previously, so I had to ask. She snatched up the marker and wrote DANGER on the board. Apparently the book version implies "ready to f---?". I learned quickly to avoid that

10-19-2009, 12:49 AM	#205 (permalink)
sima1289 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: MA Posts: 65	my example isn't a mistake i made, but something my teacher brought up. i was taking a 2-week asl course (5 days a week, for 3 hours each day) last school year, and in 1 of the first classes, my teacher was showing a kid how to sign "thirsty". she then said that repeating the sign for "thirsty" (running your pointer finger down you throat) means "sexual desire" or something like that. needless to say, some boys in the class (there was a 9th grader in the class) made the supposed sign for "sexual desire" constantly in that class. but is what my teacher said true? she isn't deaf, but she's been signing for a long time __________________ ~MAYA~ you don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing

10-27-2009, 07:08 PM	#208 (permalink)
Hutt5asl ASL Rocks!! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Southern NJ Posts: 241	I just went to a Deaf meet at our local mall last night. I was corrected on how I was signing "make". My husband and I love coffee and drink a few cups together every day, around my busy schedule. LOL My husband is disabled so I make the coffee for us. I taught him how to sign "make coffee please", by signing "make" with two fists twisting one on top of the other... I was told that that's the sign for "making out"! He got a kick out of that one! I was told to avoid that by signing "make" with two fists, and the right fist kind of bangs across the top of the left fist (make sense?) On a side note, he teases me and signs "make coffee...", I raise my eyebrows, waiting for the "please" LOL and he signs "now!" by jabbing his index finger down. I say, "Oh, you want coffee down?" Then I showed him the sign for "now". He still insists on doing it his way. __________________ Lauren My Videos / My Blog Please be patient with me... I'm still learning!

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