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#sign

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

Bizzare #vandalism - someone has taken the effort to climb a light column on #pedestrian refuge in middle of the village and obscure keep left #sign with grey paint (they have also done the same to smaller sign on the #bollard, can't be seen in photo due to darkness). Seems more sociopathic than normal #graffiti (maybe someone pissed off the refuge is there in first place, it discourages speeding through the village, or angry that the local Speedwatch have put up a camera nearby?)

Keep left sign on a pedestrian refuge that has been obscured with grey paint..
ALT
elilla&, travesti ativa antifa

Someone asked me what do I meant when I said "Japanese Sign Language has gender, like German, and unlike German Sign Language which is gender-free like Japanese". Answer:

It's very interesting—the thumb is the "male" finger, and the pinkie is "female". You commonly use this as a suffix, by signing something like "person" or "doctor" then extending a closed fist with the intended gender finger. This suffix is bound and doesn't occur by itself. Some signs also incorporate it as something akin to inflection or compounding—compare the sign for "lesbian":
media.spreadthesign.com/video/
with "gay":
media.spreadthesign.com/video/

I was once with a bigender person and I suggested them that their gender could be represented by extending both fingers in Japanese Sign Language (my flirting technique remains flawless). Alas, in actual JSL, extending both fingers represents "a mixed-gender group", or, often, "a hetero/married couple". So the sign for "society" can be inflected with the thumbs to represent "all men" or with both fingers for "all people", for example. And the individual fingers can be used as sort of little puppets representing someone in particular, as a gendered pronoun, moving through visual space and interacting with one another etc. Check out p. 22-23, fig. 2-12b on Pedersen/Masumi 2019:
minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/
for a fascinating example where "marriage" gets modded into "female-dominant marriage" with a submissive little thumb bowing well bellow the proud, tall dominating pinkie.

#japanese#sign#linguistics
elilla&, travesti ativa antifa

This is the #DGS word for "to give":
spreadthesign.com/de.de/word//

unremarkably intuitive, right? just what you'd expect.

it's also inflected: the handshape changes to fit the object you're "giving", if any. so if you're giving a drink you'll have a horizontal C-shape, as if holding a bottle or glass of water; if you're giving a book you'll have a pinch handshape, etc. you can still identify the word by the other phonetic features (orientation, location, movement, and non-manual expression).

as a normal person: yeah, that's pretty simple and intuitive. as a linguist: noun classes!! :blobcatsurprised: DGS has classifiers! :blobcatsurprised: that's a different handform for what e.g. in Japanese would be 一本、一冊 usw.!!!

#sign#linguistics
James Akers

Spent a few days up in Beacon for a friends birthday. I made them and everyone staying with us pancakes with starter leftovers, Bread 6 with spice additions of their choosing, and my first pizza. We got a pizza 00 flour and my gosh the gluten! It was my first bread in a kitchen that wasn't my own. Half was eaten in one sitting, and the 5 cast iron pizza's were devoured before I got any good photos of them.

On the way back, we stopped off in Jersey City to visit some neon I made in 2019 and installed later in spring of 2020. After 5 years in the window, some of the glue on the polycarbonate tube supports were failing. I replaced the now brittle zip ties with twisted wire, and the tube supports got some holes with nuts an bolts. Five years later and the neon still looks just as good as day 1, and the acrylic backer is still in good condition. Nice to see my favorite radio station gearing up for their party time.

The WFMU Monty Hall neon as seen from outside. A neon rainbow with WFMU in front of it and pink cursive "Monty Hall" underneath the rainbow neon record. A white cord dangles down with a bluur crutain behind the sign. The window is framed by classic columns painted black.
ALT
the crust of bread 6 along with some cut slices off of it. A decent rise.
ALT
The back of the WFMU neon. Downtown Jersey City in the background. The neon rainbow record along with white transformers seen through the clear acrylic mount
ALT
me being amazed about the gluten development in the pizza dough I made- my hand window paning through the stretched dough,. faux marble in the background along with cheap mozzarella cheese
ALT
#bread#pizza#gluten
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