religious h signs

I put off this category because it sounds a little bit boring, all church-y type words and that blips about 0 on the interest meter, technical and dry, but it turned out to be fun with charm and delight right off. The woman is shown a card with the phrase "hardness of heart" and I think, well, how would you say that? You can see those three separate words, how they look together and that group would convey a petrified heart. The woman shows how she says that, "feels nothing."

She's deaf and she interpreted the biblical phrase to show how hardness of heart is conveyed in her language. You don't say hardness of heart because that's not what is intended literally, it conveys the wrong thing. It's poetic. And there you go again incorporating poetry into your daily English with fancy serifs hanging all over the place and sounding positively Shakespearian in that language.

In a practice song, Cough Syrup, the phrase appears, "I should have found by now" translates visually most clearly with signals, "I need find finish." The past perfect appears possessive when you are Picasso drawing your picture in the air, and nobody is possessing anything in your picture so putting that English structure in your air-picture goofs it up. So does "by now." It is a superfluous clause that sounds natural in English and looks like a weird curlicue in that language. The sequence of signals "I need find finish" is eloquent in that language as "I should have found by now" is in English.

Back to religious H. She is asked,  "Halacha" She says, there's two,  "Jewish Law" and another "set law"

She is asked, "Hassidim" She shows two curly side locks.

She is asked, "hated" She shows the sign I used for 'hate that" that caused a deaf person to stop me and ask what I was saying.

Heal is restore.

She is asked to show, "hermeneutics" and she shows "interpret."

Holy Day of Obligation is shown, "day demand." (Will I ever understand Catholics?)

Homiletics is shown "teach, God, how, right right right down the line, will"

Homocide [sic] is shown "kill" and that signal is every other country's signal for "immigrant."

See for yourself. The same site's "kill" shown by another woman matches religious homocide [sic] by another woman on the same site,  as it should. And that signal matches the way about a dozen countries signal "immigrant" here, you need to type the word for the countries to appear, if you care to see we say kill how they say "person leaving a country." Weird, huh.

The word that brought me to religious H is "hallelujah" and I guessed right with "celebrate." You celebrate by twirling around those New Year's noise making things, odd single use devices that were not around in the hallelujah days. And nobody says that word anyway.

Host of angels is shown "angel, class, class"

Hypocrisy and Hypocrite are new to me. They're cool too. See? How can you ever forget that? You see it once, boom, locked in permanently, both doing and seeing it, the movement now linked with hypocrisy.  And available for use immediately. Just think, "hypocrisy" and also think one hand suppressing the other automatically.  Somehow. It's weird because the movement doesn't actually relate to anything obvious.

Hyssop is also new to me, three slashes with an invisible twig upon an invisible throng of worshipers. (It must be another Catholic thing.)

Religious H turned out a more interesting to me than I thought it would.