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Context. It's all in context. Sometimes when you see some people bantering, one of them use the sign and in context it would mean "zip it" or "keep quiet".

For "voice off", you can also mime zipping your mouth shut.

Here, the sign for breakfast is always "eat morning". Lunch and dinner are often initialized. When I asked some of the older Deaf about this, they said it was perfectly OK and now accepted in the community as ASL. Personally, I prefer how Reba has explained it - except I sign EAT before the time.

For "tonight I had spaghetti for dinner", I would simply sign "dinner me spaghetti". The person with whom you are signing will assume you are speaking of this evening. If you want to state that you will eat the spaghetti tomorrow or had it yesterday, make sure that you sign "yesterday" or...

Thanks for the great response. I will check into the websites and book!!

Does anyone know if there has been a study done comparing the grammar and syntax of different sign languages - such as ASL vs BSL or ASL vs Israeli Sign Language? I don't mean a difference in signs, but a difference in grammar/syntax. Are there major differences in the use of facial...

Don't worry about it. You are simply closing your eyes because you are concentrating. You'll break that habit soon enough. Try to practice fingerspelling in front of a mirror - so you will be "forced" to keep your eyes open by watching yourself spell. I know it might sound weird to...

Guess the link worked. But select the world 'welcome' and it will show you.

Not sure why I am not able to post the URL, but this shows how to sign 'welcome'. http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi

It can also mean "long time". For example, if you put together the signs "not", "see", and your sign - it means, "I haven't seen you for a long time."

A British friend told me that the Queen will decide who gets the crown - Charles or William. It's her crown so she decides who gets it. She told me this about 15 years ago and she told me that most people in the UK at that time wanted Wills to get the crown and not Charles. At that time, she...

I did a search for "regional signs" which would be a sharing of various regional signs. I think regional signs are very interesting and fun to talk about. I just don't want to start a new thread if another one exists.

There are a lot of signs which are used in some areas and not in others. It looks as if "plastic" is one of them.

How would you sign "obnoxious"? The closest I can think of is "rude", but that really isn't correct. Any ideas?

The sign shown in Juli's post is the sign we use for glass or porcelain.

Maybe in your region of the Midwest there is more than one ASL sign for plastic, but not where I live - there isn't any. And if you ask a member of the deaf community, they will tell you it has to be spelled.

I'm in the Midwest and there isn't an ASL sign for plastic. The SEE sign they use here is the letter 'P' while signing "rubber". A friend and I went to the grocery store. The cashier was HoH and the three of us conversed in ASL. A grocery bagger came up and used the SEE plastic sign...

What about Deaf Politicians? Have there been any deaf members of any national legislative body. Or state/regional body? I know Iowa State Senator Tom Harkin had a Deaf brother. Senator Harkin sponsored and introduced the ADA. I believe he was the first person who ever used ASL in the...

Rose, let me ask you a few questions. Please bear in mind, I do ask these with utmost respect. Have you contacted a local church and inquired about their "deaf services" or if they could give you contact information for deaf services in one of the local churches. Whoever is running the deaf...

Not its case, but its gender. Native speakers learn not just the word, but its gender. For example, when a German child learns the word for "window", he simply learns "das Fenster" and not "Fenster". The word and its gender are inseperable. For us native English speakers, this is a...