Just saw a very different sign for color 'brown'

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I'm used to the b-handshape drawn down the side of face once (palm forward), sort of like sign for beer. I just saw an initialized R-shape that shakes like other color signs in front of chest.

Anyone familiar with that?
 
Nope, I know what grey sign is with two open five hands 'mixing' black and white. This was on an ASL practice quize online that was definitely the word brown but showed letter R shaking as in purple, green yellow and others. Maybe there was a B before the R that I missed but it was certainly not the sign for brown by the cheek that I am familiar with.
 
That is another sign for grey. I used to use that one all the time.

But the shaking "R" in front of the chest is also a sign for grey.
 
podiecat said:
I'm used to the b-handshape drawn down the side of face once (palm forward), sort of like sign for beer. I just saw an initialized R-shape that shakes like other color signs in front of chest.

Anyone familiar with that?
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Yeah, I noticed that, too. I think especially some elderly people still sign that way in old version. Some of them haven't changed.
 
AlleyCat said:
That is another sign for grey. I used to use that one all the time.

But the shaking "R" in front of the chest is also a sign for grey.
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This is the sign for the color grey I learned and have seen most often. The two open 5 hand version is one I encounter or use when talking about a 'grey area' or something not clearly one way or the other.
 
Thanks, I thought I was imagining it at first, so I played it again. I only saw the R both times but assume there must have been a b first. Did you notice a B and then R? Or just R?
 
That's the one some elderly people still use. Old version sign for brown.

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Brown 2, from the video is how grey is signed in Canada (what I've learned).
Brown, we've been taught, instead of B on the cheek, is claw 5 hand, by the ear, rotated forward 1/2 turn. Cracks me up, since "crazy" is a half turn backwards!
 
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Yes, the second version is the one I use too,and the only one I've seen. It is much like the sign for beer I think, though just moving the hand down once as shown in the video.
 
honey.toronto said:
Brown 2, from the video is how grey is signed in Canada (what I've learned).
Brown, we've been taught, instead of B on the cheek, is claw 5 hand, by the ear, rotated forward 1/2 turn. Cracks me up, since "crazy" is a half turn backwards!
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That one is considered to be regional, an Ontario thing ;-).
 
podiecat said:
I'm used to the b-handshape drawn down the side of face once (palm forward), sort of like sign for beer. I just saw an initialized R-shape that shakes like other color signs in front of chest.

Anyone familiar with that?
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I've seen that one. It's an old sign probably from the 80's or 70's.
 
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