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kaji_sensei in linguaphiles

Singing in ASL

Oct 13, 2009 01:57

Found this while browsing Facebook, thought the community might be interested. I have an aunt who's very much into the deaf community up in Freemont, CA, so I was familiar with the basics of how deaf poetry worked, but it's definitely interesting seeing the concept in application (even if in this case it's more a translation than a native piece of ( Read more... )

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thaichicken October 14 2009, 03:03:05 UTC

You should post that over at deaf and see what they say.

dontfeedmelies October 14 2009, 14:49:41 UTC

there are a couple different types of ASL poetry. The two kinds that I can remember is the ABC story and the number story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj1MQhXfVJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGj-mMEjrs

Basically the story is created by using different handshapes, (ABC: the manual alphabet and the number story (using the handshapes for 1,2,3...etc. or you can create an entire story with one handshape.)