ASL Collective

The ASL Collective is a student group devoted to bringing awareness of deaf culture and American Sign Language to Hampshire and the Five Colleges. Join us and Hampshire ASL professor Dana Hoover for ASL lunch every Tuesday 11:30am-12:30pm in the Dakin Living Room! ASL lunches will start 2/9/2016. Any and all levels of experience and knowledge welcome. Look for the snazzy poster on the table and have a seat!

There will movie screenings, socials, and (we're hoping!) special guests throughout the semester!

More information about ASL Socials and events in the community is also available by way of the wmass-asl Google Group OR, more current, the Amherst &amp; Northampton Socials Facebook Group!

To join the Hampshire ASL Listserve, follow this link: https://lists.hampshire.edu/mailman/listinfo/asl

The listserve will keep you up to date on lunches, socials, and awesome events!

Events
ASL Lunch! Tuesdays, 11:30am-12:30pm, Dakin Living Room 2016 Spring Semester lunches will start February 9th!

Make sure you are on the list serve, so you get all the up-to-date locations and times! ASL Socials: First Tuesday, The Pub, Amherst, 6:00pm

Third Tuesday, Northampton Brewery Bar & Grill, Northampton, 6:00pm

Note: Buses will take you right into town for the socials, and there is occasionally a car pool! Looking for a transportation buddy? Email the listserve!

Inventory
Good conversation (in abundance).

Snazzy sign for the ASL table.

ASL books (text books, memoirs, and novels), DVDs (comedy, documentaries, yoga videos!).

= Helpful Signing Dictionaries =

http://www.signingsavvy.com/

http://www.lifeprint.com/index.htm

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

http://www.aslpro.com/

http://www.handspeak.com/word/asl-eng.php

To buy: http://www.amazon.com/American-Sign-Language-Dictionary-Third/dp/0062736345

= Don't confuse your signs! =

This is an on going, community resource! Review it, use it, add to it when you come up with other instances of confusing signs!

Signs that are similar or have the same hand movements with different expressions, categorized by number of hands involved and if the sign is symmetrical (exceptions are noted!)

One Hand: white-like-don't like- interesting beautiful-sunny good-bad-thank you (good has 2 hands!) don't know-forgot because-summer-black need-must-supposed to see-look private-secret-hide-suffer please-pleasure wrong-oops-mistake sugar-candy-cute-honey lucky-light-prefer-favorite-old sign for birthday me-mine-I-myself California-gold dentist-silver dirty-pig apple-cool everyday-experience-woman's period shy-embarrassed-prostitute fun- funny garbage-lettuce-cabbage Oh I see- poor thing same- me too patient/patience- secret/confidential serious-miss you-tell you-disappointed find-choose-pick up don't mind-don't care- ignore shirt-volunteer-apply-Maine fake- rat- mouse soon- gay older/oldest-better/best vegetable/vegetarian- paranoid (vegetarian uses two hands!) airplane/airport/flying- I love you cafeteria-restaurant bridge-steal- trash can poor-country-autumn-Passover Italy-Africa-company (co.) understand-horny

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Two Hand Symmetrical (hands do same action): shoes-more-cable story-marshmallow-number different-but exercise-gym running- fast office- room-box awkward- walk event-exciting- what's up gray-whatever-anyway paper-school-college (college is asymmetrical!) meet-meeting-date-dessert adopt-auditorium-host a party describe-instructions-explain people-party physics-electricity pregnant-machine-football-roommate-America-Wrestle technology-internet-Starbucks-connect (technology is asymmetrical!) fix- repair-kiss wait- fire retire-vacation fault-responsibility-boss-coach (boss and coach are one hand!) translator- change- transfer (translator is asymmetrical!) free- independent family- class- team- association- society- workshop- organization- group (same sign, different handshape with the first letter of the word!) worried- trouble how much- how many take care of- babysit- borrow- (be) careful- supervise- slang for sex (don't make me write it out!) weather-world-winter-cold

Two Hand Asymmetrical (hands move differently): movie-busy stressed- enough church-chocolate-temple kitchen-cook check-inspect use- get used to argue/quarrel- discuss newspaper- printer- medicine-due work-make-rock believe/belief- married mechanic- plumber Coffee-make-make out (make out is symmetrical!) music-song nice-plain-clean popular-alarm picture-look for (look for is one hand!) discrimination-cancel slow-pet rude-mean degree-month-rent-temperature program-project potato-Irish

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