party

I do this sign with a "P" handshape. Lots of people do it with "Y" handshapes and claim that the "Y" handshape is "more ASL."
I stick with the "P" handshape for party and use the "Y" handshape for the concept "PLAY" as in "Play a game."

PARTY:

Here is another way to sign PARTY. This version (using "Y" hands) does double duty as the sign for PLAY (as in "play time," "playing," or "play around").

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In a message dated 1/18/2006 2:16:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, Anita.Oleksy@_________.edu writes:
I was watching "Sue Thomas, F B Eye" last week and stepped away for a minute. I got back in time to hear "what's that sign?" "It means 'Party Pooper'"-but I didn't see the sign clearly. Do you know a sign for that? It looked like a two-part sign, and part of it may have been "boring". Could be a fun sign.
I work at Salt Lake Community College. I am "relearning" Sign Language after a 30-year "hiatus". (Learned some sign at a former job. My department now has a "Fast Track" program for training interpreters, and the coordinator and support person are Deaf. Another coworker is an student interpreter.)
Great website, by the way.
--Anita

Hello Anita,
Hmmm, "party pooper" eh? I don't recall seeing a specific sign or set of signs for that. I just asked Belinda, my wife, heh...she didn't know of a specific sign or set of signs that was regularly associated with the English phrase "party pooper."
I'll ask around though. If I find one, I'll let you know. If you find one, let me know. Did you ask any of your SLCC people yet?
Bill

Anita,
I've asked around and it seems the consensus pretty much as expressed by one of my coworkers, (Dr. Don Grushkin), he writes:

I, too don't know of any sign for this. If you do find one, let me know, although I suspect you won't -- my curiosity is piqued.... It is my suspicion that whatever Deanne Bray signed on the show was probably an "ad hoc" set of signs which could be interpreted as "party pooper" but is not a conventionalized term (although if it spreads then it would be...).
--DonG.

In a message dated 1/20/2006 10:12:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, lbouss@.edu writes:

same here but i vaguely recall someone locally or out-towner signed like "party-complain" or "party-bored"... again that cld be my imagination, sigh...

Lyes Bousseloub