As a followup to my initial What's That? video, I present a "Craigs List" of Mine / Yours / etc.
As before, this video is meant to plug in to a Where are your Keys game that you run, not to lead you in a game. See http://www.whereareyourkeys.org to learn more.
Arabic words are often modified based on the gender of the person you're talking about. So, for example, "your" is different for a boy or a girl. I don't know a good way to represent this in ASL. Ideally we'd develop some pidgin sign technique for this aspect of Arabic, which would apply through WAYK Arabic.
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You're beginning to run into the heart of what WAYK begins demanding; because of the male/female split in possessives, you may want to "limit" to just "mine/yours", and then add the sign for Man and Woman along with the ASL possessive.
I think you can do this pretty easily, actually; the ASL sign for woman, for example, is your open palm facing to the side, and your thumb touching your chin. You then touch your thumb to your chest; but you could just drop your open palm against your chest after touching your chin.
It's always way more complicated to explain in text, but essentially, I think this is very doable.
When are we going to see you at a language night here in Portland? We'd love to help you with building the "bite-sized pieces" in arabic.
I'm so glad you're making these videos.
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willem
Hmm, that combination of signs could work. I was thinking about ignoring the gender rules to get going (Technique: Mumble). Now that I think about it, that's a grammar rule that could be described in the target language without learning a bunch of extra words. "When I say YOUR to a man, I say YOUR-MALE."
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