First day of holidays
December 22, 2025I had to focus on a job application and LPSL things for the past couple days. But I'm back and cracking on.
First Lecture
031 ASL American Sign Language Vocabulary Expansion Series Dr Bill & Alex
Notes
- Tornado i like Twirl, t the fingers move together, and the NMM is different. It has an alternate with an inversed A-hand
- One version of ballet is like twirl, but moves up and down. A lower context version is Dance+Twirl-upwards. The same sign can mean smoothie
- Similar with figure skating, can add the twirl to imply its
- God, strawberry has so many versions. I was kinda desperate to find what the Manitoba version was so I found this Eat Your Colours. It's an L-hand doing like, some file thing on an upturned b base. The same video has a pumpkin variation with a B flapping wildly at the mustache area. same video has a pumpkin variation with a B flapping wildly at the mustache area.
- Binder as in stationary can be BOOK + two contacts of feminine interest to imply the rings
Vocab
- Twirl
- Travel-Whirlwind
- Tornado
- Ballet
- Skating
- Figure Skating
- Smoothie
- Europe
- Strawberry
- Cherry
- Donkey
- Binder
- Chance
- Bet
- Telepathy
- Shared-Understanding
- Empathy
- Backpack
- Lose/Fail
First Video
"There's a lot of noise around SpaceX going public."
Notes
- pin-drop, ix #SPACE-X, one of largest-em [?] CO in world ix value around 800 billion dollars, [?] move-ahead, #ipo. #initialPublicOffering meaning private CO keep-inside_no, now buy money-reserves
Second Video
Deaf Education Certificate Advertisement
Notes
- Large variation; note c hand starts with po self, announce has a similar modification-- likely because the signer's vertical. same lady does a very palm oriented outwards version of do
- In-person is just face-to-face
- 'three options' presented as index with three paths (B hand travels up each option)
- sign glossed as 'prepare' looks like plan
- revoked/expired license can be signed as license + one L moving down
- note this gloss: get license same teacher of deaf, could be an SEEism, unsure.
- add variation with Ss instead of flat Es
- CLASS glossed as 'coursework' -- i think its just a translation thing. the original text was 'there's a little more in-person coursework,' the signer signed 'more face-to-face class'
Vocab
- Degree
- Darn-it
- In-person
- Boston
- Prepare
- License
- Leadership
- Research