"Safe" is the same as "liberty" and "Liberate."
In this language those separate English words are all the same idea. The English word-cloud is compressed into one sign.
Then thinking that in sign makes you think that in English.
In Seeing Essential English, the "S" fists are switched to "L" hand formation for "liberty" and "liberate" but that's fallen out of fashion.
"Save" as in "rescue" is the same concept as "safe" and "liberate."
And "rescue" is the same sign as "safe" and "liberate."
"Save" as in secure for the future is two fingers tapping the back of the other hand held in a fist. Like tucking coin into your fist.
So instead of thinking in English, you have to be thinking in terms of what kind of "saving" you have in mind and then show it.
The four videos available on YouTube of "Safety Dance" are all done by beginning students. All four make common mistakes.
"Dance" and "Dancing" are two fingers, legs, dancing on the palm of the other hand, the floor.
All of the students do not put the legs on the floor. They're all dancing mid air. And sideways. And that makes their dancing absurd.
If you want to, you can show what kind of dancing. This is your opportunity to be hilarious. And everyone always passes it up. Or you can forget the sign and pantomime dancing. It's a good song for a robot dance. Or both.
"Then they're no friends of mine." Nobody shows "mine." Instead, they show, "not friends."
The vocals are so fast that nobody can show good hooked fingers, doubled, for "friends" so you see slipshod unhooked "friends" instead.
"Everyone take the chance" is shown as "win."
"Chance" is like holding two handfuls of divination bones and tossing them on a table. It's similar in appearance to "happen."
"Win" is snatching a baton or a trophy held in the opposite hand.
The video cuts out the sign for "world" in both places. I don't see rotating "W" signs in the other videos either.
This video shows a paper keyboard for the exceedingly simple passage. Nice touch. I haven't seen any such thing in any other interpretive video. But no sense of the notes being played. There are only two notes. That could be shown quite easily with thumb and index finger hitting the same two keys as they are played and give some sense of the simplicity of the notes that are heard. So close, yet no cigar.
This group of boys is the best.
The first kid in this group, beard with a man-bun, dances the intro swinging his dick under sweatpants. The second guy cannot keep up and omits whole phrases.
Made you look!
These girls are being silly. The video is heavily optimized, poor quality, and they cannot convey the lyrics. They're playing construction dress up and just having fun.
These two boys are having a great deal of difficulty. They can hardly spell.
This is a bad song for beginners. Long musical passages where students are expected to fill the space by dancing and lyrical passages that are too fast for beginners. I wonder why they chose it.
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I can only admire the hand and finger flexibility those signers display. My hands, being crippled with arthritis, are slow and barely flexible.
So here I am, going deaf, too inflexible to fingerspell, struggling to learn ASL, but at least I am getting cataracts so that now I can give Helen Keller a run for her money.
1) A friend learned about gluten affecting his arthritis a long time before anti-gluten became broadly accepted.
He told me one pice of bread would make him feel worse the next day. It's a very immediate thing.
2) Cataracts can be removed.
3) Speaking of bread, I like your Shun wood pattern knife so well that I bought one. Thank you for showing it. I do make crusty bread all the time and my two bread knives are woefully insufficient. I hope this one is a lot better. (I don't care about the pattern disappearing over time. Plus, if I love the pattern so much and it wears off, I can re-etch it myself.
Etch-a-sketch indeed!
So yesterday morning I was reaching for my Shun, and it being early and all, I wasn't paying the kind of attention that I should have and just barely brushed my forefinger across the corner of the blade nearest the handle. I knew immediately that was not good. Even though the cut was no longer than 3/8 of an inch, it was neat, clean and deep. Bled like a mofo. After applying pressure for 5 minutes or more I finally gave up and went out to the shop and applied super glue to the wound. Even that barely did the job.
Moral of this story - be extremely careful around that knife. The reviews were not kidding about it being wicked sharp. Be sure to store it in a safe place - even brushing against it could lead to unexpected misery.
I lived gluten-free for 15 years after being diagnosed with celiac sprue. It was a misdiagnosis and now I am making up for lost time. Must have bread! I did learn that gluten is in almost everything. Now my food allergies have moved on to other things, so what are you going to do, eh?
It's funny (almost) how experience will tell you that a cut is going to bleed even though at first glance there's not a drop of red.
Based on the user reports here I plan to keep slicing gluten with my trusty old serrated knife.
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