(and the problem with songs that are written in both Signed and Spoken Languages, is they get in through earworms and eyeworms... and they're doubly hard to shake... help me!)
This one's for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
trouble... I think she'll understand why this seemed to me to be zeitgeistly connected to what's going on with her, lately:
( lyrics, as provided by the channel owner )
Signmark (Wikipedia article, so expect a good dose of nonsense/irrelevance) is a Finnish rap/hip-hop group, and the lead artist, Marko Vuoriheimo, is a native Signer of Finnish Sign Language. However, I recognize most of the signs in this song as ASL (American Sign Language), which is fair, I suppose since its lyrics are sung in American.
But these are signs I don't (quite) recognize:
"SINCE I'm doing this for my people..." -- SINCE (because), here, has the position, movement and palm orientation as the sign that I learned, but a different hand shape.
and:
"You WON'T see me fall down..." -- WON'T has the same hand shape, and palm orientation as the sign I learned, but a different movement and different position.
Finnish Sign Language is (according to linguists) part of the British Sign Language family. So maybe that's where the change comes from? Or maybe this is just the natural evolution of changes in the way languages are "pronounced" (I mean, to be fair, the last time I studied this stuff was 20+ years ago, and that's plenty of time for phoneme shifts)? Or maybe this a sign that's used in "Street lingo," or something, that doesn't get recorded for dictionaries and classrooms?
All of the above?
Sign: I know just enough to know half of what I don't know... :-P
This one's for
trouble... I think she'll understand why this seemed to me to be zeitgeistly connected to what's going on with her, lately:( lyrics, as provided by the channel owner )
Signmark (Wikipedia article, so expect a good dose of nonsense/irrelevance) is a Finnish rap/hip-hop group, and the lead artist, Marko Vuoriheimo, is a native Signer of Finnish Sign Language. However, I recognize most of the signs in this song as ASL (American Sign Language), which is fair, I suppose since its lyrics are sung in American.
But these are signs I don't (quite) recognize:
"SINCE I'm doing this for my people..." -- SINCE (because), here, has the position, movement and palm orientation as the sign that I learned, but a different hand shape.
and:
"You WON'T see me fall down..." -- WON'T has the same hand shape, and palm orientation as the sign I learned, but a different movement and different position.
Finnish Sign Language is (according to linguists) part of the British Sign Language family. So maybe that's where the change comes from? Or maybe this is just the natural evolution of changes in the way languages are "pronounced" (I mean, to be fair, the last time I studied this stuff was 20+ years ago, and that's plenty of time for phoneme shifts)? Or maybe this a sign that's used in "Street lingo," or something, that doesn't get recorded for dictionaries and classrooms?
All of the above?
Sign: I know just enough to know half of what I don't know... :-P
