Irish sign lingo week 5
Well its been a while since I updated this but college has been damn busy!! Its going well, the words are getting a little tougher, and Im finding it a little difficult not to pull a Homer Simpson, and not lose an old thing when I learn a new one!! Having fun though and practicing almost every day talking with Adrian, so maybe ill get there eventually!! Im gonna miss the class next week tho as Im off to Barcelona! Susan (my lecturer) said she would take notes though so thats great, and as Adrian is going on the art trip too ill get plenty of practice, either that now or my handrighting may actually get legible from writing notes to him!!!
Please tell me if these notes are bothering anyone, they really are only understood by those of us doing the ISL class, Just tell me and ill stop posting them here, because you can also see them on my blog. I just think its handy fro anyone who may want to attempt the Irish version 
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Irish Sign Lingo Week 5
Near: letter N pushed down by hip
Car: Make driving gesture!
Drive: 2 fists jump out
Hate: Make to rip your heart out!!!
Walk: Hold upper arm
Train: With right hand move letter L back and forth on LHPU
Flat: Letter F to L on cheek
Hotel: Letter H to L on cheek
Bed & Breakfast: Letters B to B moving away from body
Saint: Bless yourself with open hand
Mary: 2 Letter M rubbing from knuckles to tip of fingers
Joseph: make letter J on upper arm, ( This is the same sign for Joking)
Old: Pinch up on back of LHPD
Young: Rub up side of hand
Home: Interlock 2 letter G
College: Tap letter C twice in LHPU
Learn: LHPU letter L up to forehead
University: LHPU letter U up to forehead
Boarding: Tap back of neck
Go: Circle 2 letter G forward (old sign) Or LHPD and slap forward with right hand, (new sign!)
Bus: Spell it (although there is an old sign for it which is) Rub sides of hands together with palms up
By: 2 letter B go by eachother
Like: tap chest
Love: cross your chest
New: 2 letter N going up and down
Small/Big: these are visiual signs so just gesture for whats big and small!
February 28th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
I don’t mind these here, they are interesting to see in relation to BSL. Your signs for driving and minicom (textphone) are the same as ours from what I can see.
Don’t worry too much about losing a few signs. Try running through your vocab once or twice a day. You’ll keep using them in class contexts anyway, and hopefully it’ll just become instinctive after a while.
Trust me, being able to spell your name, and understand any sign at all is impressive. There were people in my stage 1 (we have same examiners I think? CACDP?) who took 90% of the course length before something ‘clicked’. I found there were many clicking and even more plateauxing moments where I didn’t feel I understood anything.
March 1st, 2006 at 10:21 am
I don’t mind them here, although it does make me pull up the ISL alphabet and try to sign along! It can be a time drain. hehe But oh so fun.
Question: The signs for Mary and Joseph, are they predetermined signs for ANYONE named Mary and Joseph, or is it sacreligious to use them for the not-THE-Mary and not-THE-Joseph?
March 1st, 2006 at 10:29 am
Yup anyone with the name Mary or Joe can use those signs so its cool!!
no sacreligious signes here :p