English Idioms in ASL
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2020
- Here are a few English idioms in sign! I have a list of many more, so I might make this a mini series. It was tough deciding how to caption my ASL signs, so any feedback is appreciated. I would also suggest you go check out the blog post, where I do more in-depth explanations. There are also fun GIFs in there for you to use if you want!
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Old Asl student happy to find someone that keeps this part of my brain alive during quarantine
I like seeing where ASL phrases line up with that I would say in English (suuuuure/sure sure sure) and where they're completely different (heard multiple times and moving around)
Side note: the (?????) sign is my new favorite
(???????) is how i feel constantly haha! what a great sign !!
Wonderful video! One that came up the other day was "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." I would be interested in seeing more of your videos on idioms. Thank you!!
Excellent video; Thank you Rogan.
1:21 "Cat got your tongue?"
1:40 "Adding insult to injury"
2:06 "Heard through the grapevine"
2:29 "Spread like wildfire"
2:51 "Raining cats and dogs"
3:20 "Piece of cake"
3:43 "When pigs fly"
4:11 "Out of the blue"
4:51 "Think outside the box"
5:11 "Up in the air"
5:27 "Mountain out of a molehill"
I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deaf BSL user here though but some of these ASL idioms are pretty more or less the similar as BSL, like the 'heard through the grapevine' (the second one - rumours circle one), 'out of blue', 'spread like wildfire' and few others. Love this, hope you make more videos of this. Idioms are fun. One of my favourite signs are actually the (??????????) one...i dont know why but i just love that so much! even with the facial expression...gold!
Glad you liked this! I think I will be making more :)
I love how expression can completely change context
Yes!!!! I'd love to see more --- really important to be aware of this type of linguistic topics... thank you!
Shannon, thanks for the explanation about 5 phrases translated to ASL, still learning more !!! I love it! Im Deaf Brazil.
YES! Definitely more of this!
I love to watch and discuss about people's ASL interpretations of English idioms. I am usually around LOT of interpreting students, often they will ask me about how to interpret certain idioms or slangs. It is nice to see how other Deaf people would interpret certain idioms different from how I would sign.
Will do!
Thanks a chunk for making this video! I'm a writer, so I love idioms and metaphors, but I do realize how awkward they seem when signed word for word. I need to re-train my brain to think in ASL when doing my videos!
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic
Thank you! You rock! I would not mind.more idioms.
Have a great week!
Thanks, you too!
Been looking forward to a video like this
That was very good. Yes, more like that please.
Wow that is very interesting
thank you
that was really helpful! I am a ITP student and have learned a few of these but most of them I didn't know
thank you so so so so so soooo much for this! :D
Cool video
this was interesting, thank you.
This was super interesting (and useful)! Hoping for a mini series :-)
Also would add: as someone who has a pretty big vocabulary, but is still learning a lot about how sign is used in real life, I find it SUPER helpful to see videos on common expressions, signs that are used to mean a lot of different things, and these kinds of things like "versions of rain." I can try to indicate with my face and the size of a sign, but there are clearly nuances of "how it's usually done." As a HH person, I often learn a lot from how an interpreter chooses to sign something, but of course, that's learning from a hearing person, soooo... *shrug* Really appreciate this kind of thing. *kissfist*
I will be making more! :)
This was great! What about... "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
I'll add that to the list!
I especially love how facial expressions and larger/smaller signs are used to show degree/emphasis, like in raining cats and dogs. I feel like in spoken languages people pay a lot of attention to things like tone, so it seems like those play similar roles. What does poetry look like in ASL? I remember seeing a video talking about rhyming in ASL being based more on motion similarity (not sound similarity), so it would be cool to learn more about that. Are there ASL poets who you know of (whose poetry is ASL-based, not written English based)?
Yep, you can say that facial expressions and body language are the equivalent of tone/volume in sign language. I'm trying to think of where you can find poetry or the equivalent, and I'm drawing a blank. But VV, visual vernacular, does come to mind as kind of a storytelling that doesn't use ASL signs. It's pure body language, expressions, and.. It's hard to describe! Justin Perez is an amazing VV artist. If you google visual vernacular, you should be able to find a lot of things. And you're right, rhyming in ASL is more about motion and handshapes rather than sound.
@@RoganShannon13 Oh, neat! I'll check out Justin Perez. Thanks for the in-depth answer!
This was really cool to see!
Does that mean you would use hyperbole differently, too? Instead of saying something like “Oh, ew, I had a pimple the size of Olympus Mons, once”, then I imagine you would sign that you had a pimple in a very dramatic and exaggerated way to indicate it was huge. Or, instead of saying “traffic that went on till the end of time” you just sign ‘traffic’ dramatically. Am I guessing right? 🙂
Yep that would be correct! 😄
Last one reminded me of when I’ve seen some Deaf say “you’ve got me f*cked up”. Do you know that phrase?
Love this video topic!
Hmm, I feel like yes? But it's hard to say if I don't have a visual haha
Anyone know how to sign "let's get this over with"? I'm struggling to figure out what that would look like. Not really an idiom, but a common English saying.
What comes to mind the most quickly is GO-AHEAD FORGET(sides). The second sign is using both hands with the middle fingers swiping the sides of the head. Alternatively, same handshape but touching the temples then rotating and moving the middle fingers down, if that makes sense?