Our ASL final

We were asked to interpret just what the hell this dude was signing:

Hahaha - no we weren't, that man is insane and was signing gibberish. 

I heard this on the way home from class:

Samuel Barber

Deaf King Kong

I can't resist a good joke.

Iko iko

In ASL class today it was our first day of being required to tell our stories in sign. Pressure was on, I'm gonna tell you what. I did okay, held my own, at least until I told the story of my 10 year old black and white dog named Boudreaux - even my teacher was impressed, not with my finger spelling but with the Cajun name my dog carries around. My hand hurt after telling that story.

Then I got home and a guy came by and I spent the late afternoon making mezuzahs. It seemed like the right thing to do.

Scarlatti.

ASL, you can't escape it

A friend has been insisting that I watch Napoleon Dynamite. I made it part of the way through, but that is a sad movie, and I don't mean that in an emotive way, rather it is just sad. But there is ASL, so there you go:

I have told this story before...

...but here I go again. In 1931 or so my father was a member of a high school band that was one of a number of bands that got together for a massed band event at a stadium where the assembled multitude was conducted by none other than John Philip Sousa, the March King. That is both kind of a big deal and a small thing at the same time - he was conducted by Sousa, but he was one of a thousand players on the field that day. We had a similar thing when I was in band, but I can't even remember who conducted us - it damn sure wasn't Sousa, but there you go.

Anyway, later on, his band was in a contest, a battle of the bands as it were, and while they didn't win the big prize, they were recognized for playing Sousa's Liberty Bell March. Their tubular bell player was sick that day and there was no one able to fill in for him so the prize they won was the "No-Bell Prize", but they never spoke of it after that day.

I am still reading Mark Twain's complete works, and currently he is in Endor, which as Bible scholars know, is the site of Saul's big mistake and Samuel's appearance after he was deceased. Twain doesn't hold back when discussing the sites and towns and places in the middle east - they are all pretty much shitholes in his opinion, and Endor is rougher than most. Ugly mean people living in holes in the dirt, all dirt poor, so poor in fact they didn't even have Endor plumbing.

Link

When I was young we used to go watch the Marine Band rehearse - of course that was so long ago that there weren't any chicks in the band. It sounds less manly now, somehow.


Edit - here is one I learned yesterday - Pasteurize in ASL:

Oo koo ley ley

I have no idea what that Hawaiian was warbling about, but he should leave haole songs alone.

That is Francis Scott Key's grave - my father's gravesite is right over there, to the left a bit.

Anacreon in heaven.

Now that is how it is supposed to be sung.

Monday means ASL class. Here are two ASL renditions of our National Anthem.

This version has a better audio track, but the terp has an unusually flat affect.

This one has an amateur musical performance but the terp is very good, very emotive. 

I like to compare and contrast things like the word "yet". Little things make a big difference.

And if I never hear a singer go up an octave on the word "free" ever again I will be good. Stop it, really, don't do that. It upsets my dogs. Even the deaf one.

WASL

We were working on V-sign words and this song came to mind:

Lyrics here as the words are unintelligible, but hey, it's ASL, right?

Perhaps some of us are standing up for our rights.

A Rastaman friend of mine recently posted this picture and I immediately recognized the bowl as one I had made.

Based on that question the only response is this.

A while ago I asked Chip, the master of the pop-up book how those things work. He 'splained it and I built a display rack based on what I learned. Now that my photo editor allows me to edit details of a picture I can post a pop-up box I made last year. It has three racks to hold my work, the first picture shows it unfolded and unloaded, the second shows it stocked. All three pieces fold into the box which has handles so I can carry it. Think of it as a pop-up book made out of plywood. 

Lastly, my dog looked at me and wondered why I had a spring in my step. Well, sometimes politics can invade even my sequestered life.

Rock and roll! Kick out the jams!

Edit - I just watched that video, and as much as I like the energy throughout, the plasticman dance starting at 2:53 is funny as hell.

Edit.2 - here are two more pictures of my pop-up box - first, closed:

Next, box partially opened:

It's never too early on a foggy morning for a bit of pickin' an' such.

Sunrise this morning.

What a crew!

Fun with fingerspelling

I learned of this site today - this could be handy (oops) for those of you who want to work in your ability to read words that are being finger spelled. I heard we had a lot of that around here when the governor was explaining the hurricane to us - he had a trusted ASL interpreter right by his side. Not some raving lunatic like Obama had, no, the one here was the real deal, not an escaped mental patient.

Here is the site - try it out. You tell it how many letters long the word should be, the speed at which each new sign appears, then you check your work.

In keeping with the general mood around here lately, here is a cheerful little ditty by the reigning king of New Orleans Jazz, Dr. John.

Poetry corner

This morning's poem, excerpted from the movie "Through Deaf Eyes".

The natural musical interlude for this would be John Cage's 4'33", but that is trite bordering on cruel, so rather I shall try something with a groove going on.

Who doesn't like cantaloupes, eh?

It is no longer raining

and 

Rather, we had a nice sunset:

Also, I finished a nice sycamore bowl:

Frankie improves everything.

Huh?

I was at an event this evening where I was subjected to a loud live band. My ears are still ringing. I saw a woman signing and I did what Chip suggested - I pointed at my ear and flicked my hand away as if to suggest that my hearing has fled. She was more than willing to show me a few things, and ended up using her fist to circle her heart as if to say that she loves signing. I was unable to ask her where I might learn ASL, as my signing skills are somewhere between those of Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah and the guy signing behind Obama at the dead commie's funeral, but since it is becoming clear that I am going deaf perhaps I should get serious about it.

I much prefer quiet places, to wit:

Don't let your gar funkle.

Link has been corrected.

Gotye

Gotye performing "Somebody That I Used To Know"

I came across this song while looking for another song, with a very similar title, for a post earlier this week. A happy accident.

Here is a version Chip brought up in the comments, saying he loves very much.

rough question

Why can't admit you wrong why?

clusters

As you form word clouds and concept clouds that overlap so too you form clusters of sign clouds that arise from signs that fit their concept so perfectly that the hand configurations are used for a whole array of related ideas over and over this way and that way and reliably so for both doing and receiving.

"Popped up" is such sign in such a cluster that is used for the idea of "show up" and "appear" as appear on the scene.

Adele's song Someone Like You is a favorite for young interpreters who uploaded their versions, with the line "I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but I couldn't stay away" and all of the interpreters without any exception chose this sign to convey the idea of turning up uninvited.

It is the opposite of "disappear," one of my favorite signs.

A sidebar please, Your Honor. This is unrelated to the cluster.

One day long ago Jeffery described an incident about encountering one of his teachers from the deaf school in Colorado Springs at the time, at an embarrassing place. I asked Jeff, "What happened then?" Jeff said, "peek around a corner, eye contact, disappear, leave" each sign connected to the next and run as a brief video. It contained the elements of cinematography, the actor's pov, the man dropping out of sight, the magic carpet ride out. Brilliant. I thought. In that moment Jeff changed the way I perceived his manner of speaking and my own manner changed on the spot. Finally, I got it. With Jeffery's help it sank in. With no actual sentence in there, he just showed by the most eloquently simple way possible what happened relying on these eminently useful signs.

Jeff used the kind of "leave" as depart, not the kind of leave like set a potted plant in place, and not the leaves of a tree or of books. It's as if an invisible man is standing on a carpet that is snatched up, and in Jeff's description the signs and motions are connected so "leave" starts at the spot where "disappear" ends.

You can leave in any direction you like. Back to the sign cluster and to the configuration and the concept attached to it that is so useful. 

Another kind of leave is "escape" from something such as a party or prison or classroom. In the same sense that you pop up or drop out you can also slip out or away.

When a group disappears and drops out of sight, it goes "extinct." 

That configuration being so useful for showing up, sliding out, and disappearing, as individual, as two, or as group, must not be discounted for other things too. It's just too useful a configuration as a horizon, a platform, the ground or a proscenium, what have have you. Here, instead of disappearing as a group under it, the fingers are run back and forth over it for the idea of "media," although the ideas of "movie" and "film" and "video" rely on another cloud-configuration while "print" and "newspaper" and "newsletter" and such rely on another. 

Videos from two impressively dedicated dictionaries, Signing Savvy and Handspeak.

Someone Like You, ASL

Sung by Adele, one of her hits. I played it for a friend and he said, "Doesn't do anything for me." I played another. "Still doesn't." He dismissed her just like that. The video will not display here due to controls put on it. The video has a quarter of a million views and that is unusual for this type of thing and six hundred very nice comments and that is unusual for YouTube.

The interpreter is a beautiful woman, brianaott, and she does a beautiful job with this song. I noticed she did the other songs on the album too. 

For the phrase, "I wish the best for you too." She interprets I wish success for you both. 

For the phrase "Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead" She chooses to drop the concept of "instead" or any exchange of this for that, and brings "pain" to her breast.

"I heard that you settled down" is interpreted colloquially "I gathered gossip." 

success

instead

hear

gossip (two "g's" chattering)

When she first heard the story, she believed it. 

("story" looks like "join" or "relationship" except it's pulled apart.) 

MP4 files from handspeak.com

The Sound of Sunshine, ASL

No, don't go, watchmysign. Come back. Come back.

You should watch this lad because he's brilliant.

UMG controls the song and they insist it be viewed on YouTube. It's worth opening another window by B-clicking here.

I do not know why this song is chosen to translate. I hadn't heard it before. But now that I heard it four times it seems to be running on its own. I was not looking for it. The song was way down the list of results while looking for something else. YouTube did not have what I wanted so it graciously provided alternatives that became further remote from my interest as I pursued it. I proceeded aimlessly choosing things to view, I kept picking women and I kept noticing that women are doing the same thing throughout, and becoming a bit cross with the whole thing. They are interpreting their songs, conveying the gist of the chorus, so there's that, then dropping the chorus in favor of bouncing around and club dancing which is entertaining to watch, yes, someone having a good time, yes, but sadly conveys the idea only partially and quite fragmented.

A previous video of this same song I noticed the producing organization first and thought, well, it's some kind of song that an organization will select, some cheerful inclusive praise to people type thing. It looked like the organization that is putting out videos of people who grew up with deaf parents translating songs, so I watched and the woman did what the other women are all doing, a partial job of translating, not sticking with the lyrics as written throughout, with all the rest amounting to basically an audition video that includes, club dancing, attention to hair and to wardrobe, wind machine, makeup, scene and setup, posing, flirting, smooching, smiling gorgeously, as example, the video shot in puddles of water around industrial site flicking water all around with her foot for the song "Radioactive," as in Dirty Dancing and with very little emphasis on accurate signing. Then this lad, watchmysign, does the same song viewed previously that I hadn't heard of and now I'm really wondering what's up with this song.

The first woman, for contrast, if you like. You'll see what I mean immediately.

Watchmysign is very good.

I just want to squeeze his guts out.

His style is very much like my own, he reminds me of myself, and that is why he intrigued me. And that made me wonder why watchmysign didn't work out something more graphic for the song's key phrases, "I'm waiting for this storm to pass" and "that's the sound of sunshine coming down."

Watchmysign does impressively well, just short of graphic linked imagery. 

The hand configuration for "waiting" (in the song) is the the same hand configuration and movement for "fire" and also the same hand configuration for "storm" (in the song) except one hand is flipped so the hands are facing, to contain a storm. "Waiting for this storm to pass" is a very smooth phrase from one concept (waiting)  to the other (storm passing), one hand simply flips from the sign for "waiting" then both hands shift position for a storm passing by, although positioned wrongly for a textbook storm, not up there above the head, but rather as a person passes by. 

I do this sign "waiting" slightly differently than shown to distinguish it from fire. My waiting is dramatic. I throw out both arms rigidly parallel with loose hands wiggling my fingers, slowly or rapidly, the stance and the facial expression, eye rolling, watch tapping, weight shifting, say exactly what kind of waiting and how long and how trying on my patience. 

But this looks like "fire." If I looked up his version of "fire" the flames would be higher and more roiling. 

Storm, a sign that is shown lifted above the head with hands and arms covering the face. We don't like those two things about a sign, but it does has the advantage of passing by within it, so the action verb phrase "passing by" is built into the sign for "storm." 

Storm needn't be up there at the top of the head. This is the textbook example. Because our sign for "storm" is coming from the word for "waiting" and because we don't like words that make us lift our arms that high and expose our sweaty armpits and worse cover our face and hide our lips, it's fine to bring down the storm to body level as long as a good clear storm is shown. 

But it is not fine to bring down the sun, another sign lifted above the head. People execute this sign in different ways. It looks like a lightbulb. Some signers do a little circular squiggle then boink splay fingers for the rays of sun, as a lightbulb. I do the sun as full hand "C," same as shown here, rising stately into its celestial position way up there except with no rays of light as this example and as watchmysign in the song video. For "moon" the same thing with a "C" formed with a single finger and thumb, basically a lower case "c" for moon.

You see the sign for "sun"  is a pain in the butt to display. He lifts his sun right off the screen, turns it around and illuminates the whole world. 

He starts with a broad "C" as a visor, at the eyebrow. He had to pull his arm up there to begin the sign for "sun" and then take the C twice as high. It's a drag to perform this sign all the time. The thing is, if you are going to evoke the nearest star you must lift your whole arm up over your head as far as it will go, no half hearted effort acceptable, no tucking the elbows into one's ribs, no meek sun allowed, or its not a sun. If the word is in the chorus of a song you will be doing a lot of arm stretching, and since the "shine" is "coming" from that up there, then there will be some activity from that direction, rays that are streaming, pouring, flashing, shining, you set the sun in the sky, now the light is coming on you, and this is the sound. It is a phrase that looks like circular movement between the sun in the sky, its rays come to you, and the sound up to your ears. That phrase can be acted as a graphic circular motion and presented as chorus. 

Sun and moon as broad and narrow "C" involve one hand lifted high the other arm idle.  The idle arm can be put to use to show a horizon, so any phrase involving rising and setting of sun or moon can be depicted using both hands, one for horizon the other for a moving celestial body.

Textbook shine. The example is showing shine coming off something. Our shine is not coming off the back of our hand, rather, it is coming off the sun that we placed well in the sky, and our shine for this song is coming to us, not flying off in space, so, shown backward from this. Our shine begins from the sun rays we just finished depicting by showing the sign for "sun." 

Our shine is coming from the sun we placed way up there. Our sign for "come" will be altered from this to conform with our altered "shine", to show quite clearly that we're saying, "sun" "shine"  "comes."

I want to use the sign "come" because it is so odd in this context. The song is odd and I want to be odd too. The "shine" is already coming. The concept of "come" is inherent in the sign for "shine. " Just as movement is inherent in the sign for "storm" so too movement is inherent in the sign for "shine," when we preform "shine" emanating from the sun to us the verb "come" is already part it, but there is no harm in having "shine" become "come" before it gets to you. The sign can start out "shine" and finish "come" then both hands, index fingers extended, flip and slide right into the sign for  "down" to comport with music, sound, lyric and beat.

The oddness of the phrase "and that's the sound of sunshine coming down" might be the reason why this song is chosen for translation. I do not know. Maybe it's a popular song I missed. Sunshine does not have a sound. Maybe that's the thing that makes it interesting to them. Thinking of this graphically one must connect "sound" a finger to the ear or a cupped ear, to rays of sunlight "coming" down. It's an odd phrase, not "streaming down," not "pouring down," not "beating down," not "pin-lighting," not, "flooding," not "raining down," not particularly warming you up nor illuminating you, nor filling you, merely coming down.

Watchmysign does very well with the phrase. It looks to me somewhat Islamic the way watchmysign fills up with heavenly light, it's lovely, and it is the actual sign for Islam. I like it. I would do this differently though, to link signs and be more graphic.

We see the lightbulb form of "sun" already provides the rays of light the same way Akhenaten had his artists depict life-giving rays emanating from Aten. The signer could show those rays "shining" and adjust the word "come" to fit the direction of the rays that were just shown, the hands and arms being prepositioned so the phrase displays like a movie one concept connected to the next. I wonder why watchmysign didn't work out a visual phrase, something simple and graphic that runs in conceptual sequence smoothly using the systems of sign, one so pure and so graphic that would make sense to non-signers. 

What is this?

That's all there is to this inane joke. I don't even know why I looked up the word. It must have been in a song. This happens every day all throughout the day, prompted by songs and by reading. 

It's just so easy because the laptop is right here, same thing with a phone. I used to have to learn the lyrics to the song, not always so easy to do and not everyone always agreed what the words are. Now I have them in front of me in seconds before the song breaks into vocals. 

Back then I would look in my analog dictionaries for the words in the song that I do not know, and I have the best dictionaries I've seen. The best. I am so proud of them. 

And now they mean nothing because now there are dozens of electronic dictionaries, good ones too, right here wherever I'm at. So now I get to see how everybody says things, not just my friends and my few books. 

But back then with my memorized songs when we'd meet at work or when I'd encounter friends next, I would run through the song in my mind picking out the words I could not find and ask them how to say them. I'd insert the new signs in my songs and be on my merry way in search of new songs to obsess. In this manner my vocabulary in this language grew over years. Now word searches are much faster, on account of the computers and slower on account of the high number of dictionaries and faster because the machines these days race like nobody's business and slower because now twenty songs are processed in the time one song did before and a lot more words come by every day without cease.

My ways of saying "trap" differs completely from this. My way is more like a bear trap, or Venus fly trap, or trap door, or a snare. I have not seen this, and if I did see this sign then I did not understand what it meant. I miss a lot. This way here is odd because the trap aggressively seeks its prey and not the prey walking into a trap. I wouldn't get that. Don't you think? I would not associate this movement with the concept of "trap." That little problem made me look up the word in all the dictionaries, just another example why word-looking-up goes so slowly anymore. This is usual. It actually all goes very quickly with good connection and fast laptop but now this happens to almost all words in this language, just to check on alternates, one word gets looked up at six places with up to a dozen or more videos. There is also YouTube, separate songs, and non-video sources.

ASL browser hosted by MSU agrees with Signing Savvy above, the sign for "trap" is made like a smart mousetrap that leaps upon its prey.

I was unsatisfied to see American dictionaries use the word for "stuck." 

Stuck is a useful word. But it is not trap.

Lifeprint does not have the word. Handspeak does not have the word, but she does have the word for "mousetrap" and here we see her "trap" is of the crocodile variety. ↓

The USA interpreter at Spreadthesign uses the word for "stuck" like ASL Pro does. So far, two separate agreements, and two no-shows. What about the rest of the countries at spreadthesign? What are their traps like? 

Czech is a crocodile trap.

Iceland is too.

So is Lithuanian.

So is Swedish, but without teeth. 

As is Turkish.

French is more clearly vertically oriented like a Venus fly-trap. ↑

Spanish "trap" is our word for "danger" or "blocked attack," a useful ASL sign.

Estonian is a more precise trap. This is our word for "exact." another useful sign. If formed with "Ps" instead of two spark plug tips then the world would be "perfect." If you want to be silly, as the people I know do, then when you touch the two "Ps" together do so precisely, as two pairs of open scissors touching at tips, closing as a stapler, both scissors close then open again back to two "Ps" touching at tips as if you stapled a paper precisely in air. Then laugh and sip your cocktail. 

Latvian. I haven't a clue. Maybe a pit with branches for covering. The sign is similar to our sign for "sit" and also similar to our sign for "salt" if they would twinkle the fingers as if sprinkling table salt.

Polish is the crocodile with a victim!

The German "trap" baffles me. It looks like a feline stalking and lunging, then an attack directly at a victim. It is our word for "close the lid on the coffin" and the jab into the palm is our word for "again" and for "a thousand." 

Ukrainian wins second place because she is so completely fierce and she describes a precise snare with loops and a trip plate the likes of which I have not seen.

British English wins first place. She has the best grabbiest trap plus she's a bit deranged.

Deaf Ninja

Synopsis:

Austin daydreams a lot. That's just him. 

Austin's older brother wore an old fashioned box-style hearing aid strapped to his chest. Austin thought it made his brother look ridiculous. It made him laugh. That pissed off his brother so much he'd whip out his earplugs spin them around and smack Austin with them. 

Then one day during such an ear-plug pummeling episode it suddenly occurred to Austin: "Deaf Ninja" the movie. It'll be like the Matrix. Here, let me show you what happens...

This video was recalled by remembering the deaf guy from Texas who told a remarkably vivid story and it turns out I was remembering Austin Andrews. Then according to Austin's bio, he actually does live in Texas. Austin Texas, so there ya go. 

His manner of veering from textbook ASL into pantomime and embody the depiction so fully places Austin's story in the realm of gen-ewe-wine theater. Austin reminds me of Jeff because this is exactly how Jeff speaks, using ASL as armature to structure their own vivid pantomime with spelled letters delivered on spot and held in space rigidly and always rapidly and remarkably clearly as typed English. Their family backgrounds are similar too. And Jeff is very fond of Texas besides, due to the horses and rodeos. Jeff's word for "Houston" is "House."  

Austin's "Deaf Ninja" story is seven years old and now become a bit famous. Below, Daniel Moses says what he sees while watching Austin's video. I must say, Daniel does quite well indeed. No messing around either, Daniel gets right to it. Immediately Daniel's "Hello" is Austin's "Hello" in the video Daniel is watching. Daniel is saying what he is seeing on his monitor. Too bad Daniel's cam is not showing his monitor so we can read along, maybe the cam is in the monitor's frame like mine is. Daniel reads Austin wonderfully. I cannot do better myself and I marvel at Daniel's facility. 

Although, I would emphasize as Austin does, the old style hearing aid is a clunky box worn at the center of the chest. And it is funny-looking, not to me, to a younger deaf sibling, there is some very touching tragi-comic revelation here as Austin plays all the parts in his own day-dreamt story. Austin is his older brother wearing the box hearing aid on his chest while Austin is also himself looking and pointing and laughing. Austin is his older brother angry and in attack mode pummeling Austin with the earplugs while Austin is also young Austin being pummeled with whipping earplugs for being such a mean-spirited  non empathetic little prick. Austin is ninja  with eye slots through black head wrapping. Austin is writer and director. He uses stop action framing, he turns the camera sideways so the whole scene tilts over in Matrix-fashion the ninja hero turns sideways in midair and runs the walls as if they were flooring. Austin shows fog become rain and brings focus to one single drop that stops, revealing dream-time where projectiles are dodged and a fight is choreographed in slow motion, earplugs are deadly weapons and  swords are pulled from back-scabbords and slice up the whole screen. The fight ends. The raindrop suddenly falls we telescope back from Matrix space to real space, that is, Austin Andrew's fantasy space. There are a lot of theatrical and cinematographic techniques packed into Austin's idiosyncratic style. 

Daniel sees a lot and says it all. Daniel does excellently at saying what he sees. Now that you know, and now that you know Austin is coming at us in his personal way  and theatrically and less as a textbook and with ASL as convenient artistic armature and buttress, what do you see in Austin's telling? And isn't Daniel the student a wonderful teacher?

Oh! I see it now. Interpreting the video is Daniel's final exam. Well done. 

ASL to English Deaf Ninja interpreting final exam from Daniel Moses on Vimeo.

Daniel Moses http://vimeo.com/81431151

"...they defeated us."

That day past, anyone towel-head Arabs on 4 planes defeated our nation.

Seems silly, I know, but true, they defeated us past.

Since then we spent ourselves  bankrupt, allowed PC to defeat common sense, regarded with contempt the people who built this country elected a Muslim president who war on American people.

["Common sense is "CS" coming out of the forehead.
"Regard" is "look over," and "contempt" is look down. The two signs blend together.
"Who" is thumb at bottom lip with index finger circling around the lips like whipping up a little whirlpool. It barely shows.

"President" is a Texas Longhorn bull. Most likely Teddy Roosevelt. There is a one-handed way of saying bull.]

We are done. Enjoy the decline and be sure to name and shame everyone who voted for that metrosexual traitor. They need to be reminded today and every day.

["Decline" could be like a sliding board coming right at you.
"Shame" and ashamed are same as "embarrass". Sometimes "red" then cupped hand turning at the cheek as blushing. Akin to shy, coy, demure and such.

"Metropolitan" is roof roof, I alternate roofs and make a boxier town with skyscrapers. 

"Today" is "now day"

"Vote" is similar to making tea]

Comment by some crackpot earlier. No wait!  I'm sorry. That is Sixty-Grit. Just kidding.  I visualized the phrases as I read them earlier and thought, oh, that's rather good. I like it when people speak and write such that I can see it.

This was too hard to put together. Too many files. Over a thousand. I just now erased them. Next time I'll just record myself. That would be a lot easier. 

Signing Savvy

ASL Pro

Handspeak

suicide in ASL

There are a lot of ways to convey the idea, most involve the word "kill" that looks so much like the word "immigrate" or "move under" and nothing at all like the word "die," one of my all-time favorite words.

Some dictionaries do not have the word "suicide." I suppose it's just one of those words that does not occur when people are compiling a dictionary, or perhaps too unpleasant a word to include. Seeing the specific ways to off oneself;  holding a two finger gun to the head, you can imagine the gun needn't be held at the temple. Some people do this in real life by holding the gun under their throat. And then there is slicing the wrists, a word that goes by so quickly it can be missed. Seeing those two specific ways suggests other ways the idea can be pantomimed specifically to depict choking, hanging by an invisible noose, tilting your head and sticking out your tongue, stepping in front of a train, electrocution, jumping off a bridge, walking into a lion's den, holding an asp to one's neck, seppuku, driving a car off a cliff, eating until you explode, what have you.

Kill myself (suicide)


Shoot myself in head (suicide)


Cut both my wrists (suicide)


Myself kill (suicide)

Self individual kill (suicide)

Kill me (suicide)

Name world kill yourself s-u-i-c-i-d-e prevent day I stand support
with u-n-i-t-e-d  n-a-t-i-o-n-s