Wednesday, April 8, 2015

daily

The phrase I wanted to check is "daily bread" both basic signs in my beginner book long ago. But since then so many similar signs were learned and so many variations, for example bread is sliced similarly to the way a tomato is sliced and "daily" or "everyday" is similar to "aunt," a motion at the cheek where female signs go, plus they both resemble other things. I wanted to check how all the online dictionaries show both signs just to make sure.

Unusually, everything matched. Every regional dialect and all dictionaries through time, everyone including me agree, except for the fer'ners.

One of the dictionaries that comes up often for simple words like this is not so useful as others because it has only the most basic words. Like all the others the site Lifeprint is built over time. A life's work in a way, or a good part of it, the dictionaries take so long to assemble that two of them show quite clearly the men losing their hair during the process, and both of the men on different sites look more solid, more natural, more together, more with it, greater gravitas, more handsome, as they age. You can see this video on the page came later than the photographs on the same page that describe the word "daily."

This video caught me by surprise and crumple in laughter. It's an example of the word "daily" used in a sentence. Due to Dr. Vicars looking more sensible than he does in his earlier sign-description photos on the same page I was NOT expecting anything so silly as this:


I thought, "You perv!" You cannot ask college students this anymore. It can get you in trouble. He asks, "Generally, you think, you, you, need change underwear daily?" 

1 comment:

rhhardin said...

Ashton Kutcher does a lot of signing with his deaf brother and family in "A Lot Like Love," and I was wondering (without urgency on the matter) if it was real signing. Chip could say, I thought.