Lesson 42 American Sign Language (ASL)

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Objectives:

___ I have taken the Lesson 42 Practice Quiz
___ I have taken the general practice quiz for this lesson. See: PRACTICE QUIZZES

List of signs and sentences:
Level 03 (Lessons 31 - 45) Practice Cards (in MS Word .doc format)
Level 03 Sentence List
Level 03 You Tube Playlist

Vocabulary:

BY-A-HAIR-[close!]
DIE
HIT
LOAN-[borrow, lend, keep]
PROMISE
QUIT-[join, PARTICIPATE]
READY
RESTROOM
RIGHT-[alright, right-(direction), right-(correct), rights-societal)]
RUIN-[spoil]
SLIPPED-MIND
SMOKE
SOFT-[wet, humid]
STRAIGHT
TRAIN-GONE
TRANSFER-[switch-over]

Review Vocabulary

Expansion Vocabulary

GROUP-[non-initialized]

Practice:

Practice sheet: 42.A
01. YOU SOMETIMES PASS CLASS BY-A-HAIR YOU?
02. YOUR GRANDMOTHER DIE?
03. YOU HIT YOUR BROTHER?
04. 5-DOLLAR YOU-MIND you-LOAN-me?
05. HAPPEN YOU PROMISE SOMETHING, LATER YOU ALWAYS PROCEED D-O I-T YOU?

Practice sheet: 42.B
06. THIS CLASS, YOU WANT QUIT?
07. LAST-TEST-[final_exam], YOU READY YOU?
08. RESTROOM WHERE?
09. CHILDREN-rt, ADULTS-lf, THEIR-rt RIGHTS-[societal], THEIR-lf RIGHTS-[societal], YOU THINK SHOULD SAME?
10. TOMORROW RAIN? GAME CANCEL. (A rhetorical question followed by a statement. Suggested response: OH-I-SEE.)

Practice sheet: 42.C
11. APPOINTMENT YOU SLIPPED-MIND EASY?
12. YOU-MIND I SMOKE?
13. EGG Y-O-L-K YOU LIKE SOFT-rt, HARD-lf, WHICH?
14. MOST RIVER STRAIGHT?
15. QUOTE TRAIN-GONE, what-MEAN? ("What does the phrase 'train-gone' mean?")

Practice sheet: 42.D
16. YOU WANT TRANSFER-[switch-over] OTHER SIGN CLASS YOU?
17. PHONE YOU HAVE what-KIND?
18. NOW-MORNING, YOU what-DO?
19. YOU BORN WHERE?
20. YOU THINK TODAY N-I-C-E?

Additional Information:

Idioms: ASL has a number of genuine idioms. See: "ASL Idioms"

National Captioning Institute

Egg yolk: Most adults know what an egg yolk is. But what if you were talking to a child who didn't know what that meant? By signing "yellow round-thing" it would be clear that you were talking about a yolk. You could sign "YELLOW CL:C-"index and thumb."

TRAIN-GONE: What does "train-gone" mean? Deaf people use this sign to mean "you missed it" and we aren't going to take the time to rehash the story so you can know what we are talking about.

Question: A student asks, "At around the 26:11 mark of the lesson 42 video (https://youtu.be/Lya0-Q081Ho?t=1569) you discuss children and adults. You sign something after both "children" and "adults" that looks somewhat like the sign for "chat" but it is a different sign. What is that sign?

Answer:
The sign to which you are referring is a sign that can mean "group / category / cluster / section / population / set of / ... and similar concepts. It has a variety of "labels" but we can call it: GROUP-[non-initialized version]. I used to call it the "CLUSTER" sign but I think more people would recognize it as a version of the sign for GROUP that doesn't use "G" handshapes and instead uses "loose-5" or somewhat relaxed "CLAW" handshapes.

When added to a sign such as "ADULT" it creates a meaning to the effect of "adults in general" or "adults as a whole" which can also simply be "adults."

If the GROUP-[non-initialized] sign is added to CHILDREN it creates a meaning of "children as a whole" or "children in general."

Since the GROUP-[non-initialized] can mean "a category" or a "set of" -- it is particularly good for comparing and contrasting.

If there is enough context in your sentence you do not need to use the sign GROUP-[non-initialized]. Since the sign CHILDREN is already plural you typically don't need to add the group sign but using the group sign allows us to conveniently place "children as a set" on one side for later comparison with adults (as a set) on the other side. It makes it more clear that we are comparing two groups.

See: GROUP-[non-initialized] / category / cluster / section / population / set of
https://youtu.be/CBvbmM7dHaY

Quizzes:

Self-study students, see: Lesson 42 Practice Quiz
Taking this as a class? Contact your local teacher or see your syllabus for the right quiz to take.

Notes:

GRANDMOTHER is linked to the GRANDMA sign page and YOU-MIND to the DON'T-MIND page (Vicars' own YOU-MIND label appears on that page). SHOULD is linked to the NEED page, which covers the need/must/should sign family. ADULT (item 09) and BORN (item 19) have no verified sign page in the corpus and are left unlinked. CHILDREN, PHONE and TODAY are linked but untagged because those pages never appear in an earlier vocabulary section. GROUP-[non-initialized] in the Expansion Vocabulary is unlinked; its explanation and video link appear in Additional Information. The source's trailing "Curriculum revision notes and lesson archive" block was empty boilerplate and has been omitted.

ASL: Lesson 42