[Sca-cooks] Deaf, ASL poll

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In a message dated 2/19/2003 1:12:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
selene at earthlink.net writes:


> I know a few simple signs, yes, no, thank-you; plus the SCA-specific signs
> that
> Baroness Thea Northernridge made up for signing SCA courts many years ago.
> These include the titles, which mainly seem to consist of the first initial
> of
> the title ["k" for king, etc., except for "n" for knight, etc.], then draw
> the
> hand over the chest from shoulder to the opposite end of the waist like a
> baldric.
>

Actually, the king, queen, and prince signs at least are from ASL and were
not made up for SCA courts - they are in the sign language book that I've
been using for classes.  She just extended them to other titles...

Brangwayna