December 19th, 2017

given your track record so far that's hONESTLY A GOOD QUESTION...

And as always, you can vote! for an extra doodle! This one ponders Æmber's previous visits.

ALSO: it's come to my attention that next weeks update would fall on, uh.... right after Christmas Day. So! there's a good chance there will just be a filler image for that. BUT AFTER THAT WE SHOULD BE BACK IN BUSINESS AGAIN!!


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Comment by MagpieM

I love Tareth's determination to teach Jonan some fricking sign language already. If she has to sign about corpses, then, by golly, she'll sign about corpses!

Also, it's never a bad time for a handsign lesson, Sev. What are you even talking about.

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posted at 1:21am on December 19th, 2017

Reply by Galev

Haha, yes! I love that part too! :D

By the way, I think some of the words she is signing are italicized for emphasis, right? So this makes me think, how do you do emphasis or tonal difference in sign language?
Though I guess even with speech, we use a lot of meta-communication and gestures to add emphasis, so I guess body language can convey that.

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posted at 2:31am on December 19th, 2017

Reply by eoforyth

Good question - I don't know (and would like to), but more emphatic gesticulation and other body language seems logical.

Be interesting to see Jonan's usual sarcasm at work through signing :D

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posted at 3:05am on December 19th, 2017

Reply by The Quiet One

I am not a native ASL user or sign language expert by far. But I can tell you from what I do know that emphasis in ASL can be done a lot of different ways - by varying the speed of a sign, the size of it, repeating it, adding facial expressions, etc.

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posted at 12:32pm on December 19th, 2017

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