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How do i get a name in S.L. when there is no one to give me a name?
 
Do you have a Deaf friend that sign with you? If he or she look over you and find a sign name for you. He or she will give you the sign name. If you don't have a Deaf friend, then try go to the Deaf event where there is Deaf community. One of them might give you a sign name. But here online that is hard to tell if you are not in person in front of us.
 
yea, i can do neither. i live in a very small town and far away from a deaf comunity, so i have no way of geting a name in Sign Language.
 
Fingerspell the letters "K" and "G" under your chin as if you were signing the word "grime". Use that as a start.
 
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Name signs are given (like a gift) by Deaf individuals once someone is involved in the deaf community.
Not everyone has one, especially hearing people. Many Deaf who have short or easy to spell names also don't have Name Signs.

It's perfectly acceptable (and normal) for an ASL student or hearing person to just fingerspell their name until they are immersed into the Deaf community.

Don't worry about Name Signs - just practice ASL and in time a Deaf person will give you a proper name sign that will not only be appropriate, but accepted by the ASL communities
 
Try this, mix the first letter of your name with an ASL sign that describes you. For instance, In my case, I sign "kick", but instead of a flat hand meeting my wrist, I use my pinkie ending with the "J" formation under my wrist. Be creative and simplify it.
 
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yea, i can do neither. i live in a very small town and far away from a deaf comunity, so i have no way of geting a name in Sign Language.
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If you feel far away from Dothan, Montgomery, Pensacola and Mobile (where I'm from) then you have given up to easy. Your best bet is to take Highway 29 south to Pensacola for the monthly ASL social. Until you make friends, in person, with a dozen or so deaf, your sign name will have to wait. Don't give up so easy. Gas prices have gone down, so take advantage to take a trip to a social and make friends with the deaf. Go in without expectations and just be yourself.
 
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Jess said:
Try this, mix the first letter of your name with an ASL sign that describes you. For instance, In my case, I sign "kick", but instead of a flat hand meeting my wrist, I use my pinkie ending with the "J" formation under my wrist. Be creative and simplify it.
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Are you serious? You must be hearing (or oral deaf/hoh) ?
 
Rolling7 that sounds like fun and a great way to meet people. But I need to know when it is
 
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Are you serious? You must be hearing (or oral deaf/hoh) ?
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???... Yes, seriously. I am CI user/oral-deaf without CI.
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Randomly initializing signs to "create a name sign" is a really bad idea.

Not only does it not conform to most name signing rules (with certain exceptions), it also creates a situation where someone can accidentally "invent" a sign that actually already means something ("B" At chin is just on example - "Brittney" thinks she's given herself a great name sign, until she finds out it actually means b**ch .. Opps!)
 
What's the big rush to get a sign name? Your name isn't that hard to spell. Besides, until you begin to socialize with a number of deaf people, how often do you need to use your own name?
 
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What's the big rush to get a sign name? Your name isn't that hard to spell. Besides, until you begin to socialize with a number of deaf people, how often do you need to use your own name?
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It seems endemic to hearing people to think getting a name sign makes them:
A) "cool"
B) a "real ASL student"


I know literally dozens of Deaf (including myself) who's Name Signs are fingerspelled versions (often stylized) of our names. The reality is if you have a name that's 2-6 letters long, especially if it flows well (Sophia, Silvia, Chris, etc) then you don't really need an ANS (or DNS) at all ... it's not like a Name Sign is a "magic key" to the ASL community.
 
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