A: For example, a lot of people sign OFTEN, like this. I sign ‘often’ differently, actually, like that.
A: zum beispiel
A: ||BEISPIEL1
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ||OFT1B*
A: oft
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: ||ICH2
A: ich
A: WECHSELN2^
A: anders
A: ||ICH1
A: ich
A: ||OFT4*
A: oft
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: There are various possibilities to sign ‘mistake’, like this or like that.
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||FEHLER-$KANDIDAT-MST35^
A: fehler
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
A: ||FEHLER-$KANDIDAT-MST34^
A: fehler
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
A: I use the sign MISTAKE.
A: ||ICH2
A: ||FEHLER6B*
A: fehler
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: It is different.
A: VERSCHIEDEN1*
A: verschie{den}
A: What else?
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $LIST1:2of2d*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $LIST1:2of2d*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: I sign BANANA, like this.
A: ||ICH1
A: BANANE1A
A: banane
C: I’m not talking about dialects, it is about the difference between old and new signs.
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: Yes, my granny signs it like this.
A: ||JA2*
A: ja
A: ||ICH2
A: ||OMA1A
A: oma
A: ||SO1A*
A: so
A: GEBÄRDEN1B
A: I sign different from her.
A: ||MEIN1
A: GEBÄRDEN1B*
A: ANDERS1
A: anders
A: ||MEIN1*
A: It is like that.
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Granny signs BANANA, like this.
A: ||ICH1*
A: ||$INDEX1
A: BANANE1A
A: banane
A: I sign BANANA.
A: ||ICH1*
A: ||BANANE2*
A: banane
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: I am running out of examples right now, what else?
A: ||AUFZÄHLEN1B*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: ||WAS1B*
A: was
B: I wanted to say the same thing, but you were faster.
B: $GEST-SPITZHAND1^*
B: wollte
B: WOLLEN7
B: $INDEX1
B: dasselbe
B: DASSELBE2A
B: ÜBERNEHMEN1*
A: I take it from you.
A: ||$INDEX1*
A: ||ÜBERNEHMEN1*
A: What else?
A: ||ANDERS2*
A: andere
A: ||ES-GIBT3*
A: gibt
B: A typical example is the sign GREEN.
B: FRÜHER1*
B: typisch
B: TYPISCH1*
B: ICH1*
B: GRÜN49A*
B: grün grün
B: Nowadays GREEN is signed like that.
B: JETZT3*
B: jetzt
B: UM2B
B: GRÜN2*
B: grün
B: Others have started to sign GREEN, but I still use this sign for it.
B: ICH2*
B: $INDEX1
B: GEBÄRDEN1B*
B: GRÜN2*
B: grün
B: ICH2*
B: GRÜN49A*
B: grün
B: They used to happily sign GREEN like that, now they changed it to that.
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früher
B: GRÜN49A*
B: grün grün
B: DANN1A
B: dann
B: WECHSELN3A
A: Just like my granny, but I sign it like that.
B: GRÜN2*
B: grün
A: $INDEX1
A: ||ICH2
A: ich
A: GRÜN21*
A: grün
B: It is GREEN like this or like that.
A: GRÜN21*
A: grün
B: GRÜN30*
B: grün
B: GRÜN49A*
B: grün
B: $GEST-OFF^
A: My granny uses this to sign GREEN.
A: $INDEX1
A: ||GRÜN2*
A: grün
A: As my granny signed BROWN, I was surprised.
A: $INDEX1*
A: ||BRAUN6
A: braun
A: ||ICH2
A: [MG]
A: I sign BROWN, quite different.
A: ||ICH2
A: ||BRAUN2B
A: braun
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: ||ANDERS2
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: WAS1B*
B: was noch
B: What else?
A: I sign AUGUST, but my granny signs differently.
A: ||$INDEX1
A: AUGUST-$KANDIDAT-MST05^*
A: august
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||AUGUST4A
A: august
A: It surprised me very much that I use a different sign than her.
A: SEIN-IHR1*
A: ||KREUZ1A^
A: [MG]
A: ||ICH1
A: ||ANDERS1
A: anders
B: AUGUST or AUGUST.
B: AUGUST4A
B: august
B: AUGUST2
B: august
A: Granny signs AUGUST.
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||AUGUST4A*
A: august
A: She is not able to use the one-handed finger spelling.
A: $INDEX1
A: oma
A: FINGERALPHABET1*
A: KANN1*
A: She uses the two-handed finger spelling.
A: ||$INDEX1
A: BASTELN1B^*
A: The signs I use are different from the ones she uses.
A: ||ICH1*
A: ANDERS1
A: anders
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
B: I am wondering why it is signed like that, AUGUST?
B: WUNDERN1*
B: WARUM1*
B: warum
B: AUGUST4A*
B: august
A: Why AUGUST? My granny signs it just this way.
B: DU1*
A: ||AUGUST4A*
A: august
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||OMA1C
A: oma
A: ||GEBÄRDEN1B*
A: ||AUGUST4A*
A: august
A: I copied this sign, AUGUST, from her.
A: ||ICH2*
A: ||ÜBERNEHMEN1*
A: [MG]
B: I use the sign AUGUST.
B: ICH1*
B: AUGUST2
B: august
A: ||AUGUST4A*
A: august
A: I sign AUGUST, my granny uses a different sign.
A: ||AUGUST-$KANDIDAT-MST05^
A: august
A: ICH2*
A: AUGUST-$KANDIDAT-MST05^
A: august
B: AUGUST?
A: ||$INDEX1
B: AUGUST-$KANDIDAT-MST05^*
A: ||OMA1C
A: oma
A: ANDERS1
A: anders
A: She signs AUGUST, it surprised me.
A: $INDEX1
A: ||AUGUST4A*
A: august
B: Really, like this, AUGUST?
B: AUGUST-$KANDIDAT-MST05^*
B: august august
A: ||ICH1*
A: The sign AUGUST fits well with summertime, because school restarts as well.
A: AUGUST-$KANDIDAT-MST05^
A: august august
A: ||SOMMER3*
A: sommer
A: PASSEN1*
A: passt
A: AUGUST9A^
A: schule
B: What else?
B: $GEST^
B: was noch
A: She signs COFFEE and I do it likewise.
A: KAFFEE2A*
A: kaffee
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: ||GLEICH8*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: There is CAKE TO-BAKE and granny signs it this way.
A: KUCHEN9
A: kuchen
A: BACKEN3A*
A: backen
A: ||$INDEX1*
A: KUCHEN9
A: kuchen
A: BACKEN1
A: backen
A: Granny signs TO-BAKE and I sign TO-BAKE CAKE.
A: ||$INDEX2
A: BACKEN1
A: ||ICH2*
A: KUCHEN9
A: BACKEN3A*
A: backen
A: She signs TO-BAKE, like this.
A: ||$INDEX1
A: BACKEN1
A: backen
A: This surprised me, because I do it differently.
A: ||ICH2
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: What else can I think of?
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: ||AUFZÄHLEN1C^*
A: There is one more sign for ‘weather’, but I sign WEATHER.
A: ||WETTER4*
A: noch ein wetter
A: ||ICH2*
A: ||WETTER7*
A: wetter
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: This sign is quite different.
A: ANDERS1*
A: anders
A: WEATHER is the one my granny uses.
A: ||WETTER4*
A: wetter
A: ||SEIN-IHR1
A: I don’t sign it like that.
A: ||ICH1*
A: ich
A: ||WISSEN2A*
A: weiß
A: ||NICHT3A*
A: nicht
A: She also signs ‘wind’ differently.
A: $INDEX1
A: WIND2
A: wind
A: ||ICH1*
A: WIND2
A: [MG]
A: wind
A: ||WIND1*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: There are differences.
A: UNTERSCHIED1B*
A: What else?
A: ||ANDERS1*
A: anders
A: I sign SCHOOL, like that.
A: ||ICH1
A: ||SCHULE1A
A: schule
A: ||ICH2
A: ||SCHULE1A
A: schule
A: My granny signs SCHOOL, like this.
A: ||$INDEX1*
A: schule schule
A: SCHULE5
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: I sign SCHOOL.
A: ||ICH1
A: schule
A: ||SCHULE1A
A: ||ICH2
A: $GEST-OFF^
C: It is your turn.
C: How do you sign PARENTS for example? How do you sign it?
B: I sign ‘parents’ like this.
B: ELTERN1A
B: eltern
A: What does that sign look like again?
A: ||STIMMT1A
A: stimmt
A: ||ELTERN8*
A: el{tern}
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: weiß nicht
B: Like this, PARENTS.
B: ELTERN1A
B: eltern
A: PARENTS? No.
A: ||ELTERN8
A: eltern
A: ||NEIN1A*
A: PARENTS, like this? Not like this either.
A: ||ELTERN8
A: eltern
B: ELTERN8*
B: el{tern} eltern
B: PARENTS? Is it like that?
A: ||NEIN1A*
A: nee
A: I used to sign PARENTS.
A: ||ELTERN8
A: eltern
A: ||FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: ||MEISTENS1A
A: meistens
B: PARENTS?
B: ELTERN8
B: eltern
A: Granny signs ‘woman’ like that.
A: $INDEX1
A: ||FRAU1A
A: frau
A: I sign WOMAN.
A: ||ICH2
A: FRAU4A*
A: frau
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: She signs it this way.
A: ||FRAU1A*
A: frau
B: Don’t you sign WOMAN, just like me?
B: DU1^*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: ICH1*
B: FRAU1A
B: frau
B: To sign WOMAN, like that, is really weird.
B: FRAU4A
B: frau
A: No, I sign WOMAN.
A: ||ICH2
A: FRAU4A*
A: frau
B: ICH2*
B: MERKWÜRDIG3*
B: komisch
B: FRAU4A
B: frau
A: You can sign ‘woman’ either way.
A: FRAU4A*
A: frau
A: ||FRAU3A
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: Or like this, even.
A: frau
A: ||FRAU6
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: It is quite the same.
A: DASSELBE2A*
C: You can use the sign WOMAN, but some people don’t like it. Then you can change it into this.
A: This sign WOMAN is more casual.
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: FRAU4A*
A: frau
A: locker
A: LOCKER1
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: There are differences.
A: VERSCHIEDEN1*
A: verschieden
A: There is the sign WOMAN.
A: ||FRAU1A*
A: frau
A: You can sign HUSBAND or MAN.
A: ||EHEMANN1
A: mann
A: ||MANN1*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: How do you sign ‘partner’, like this or like that?
A: ||LEBENSPARTNER1
A: PARTNER2*
A: GEBÄRDEN1B
A: ||FRÜHER1*
A: was
A: ||WAS-BEDEUTET1*
A: was
A: GEBÄRDEN1B
B: I sign it this way.
B: LEBENSPARTNER1
B: [MG]
A: I don’t sign it like that.
A: ||LEBENSPARTNER1*
A: I sign PARTNER.
A: ICH1
A: PARTNER2*
A: ICH1
A: PARTNER2*
A: There are different signs and occasionally I adopt some of them.
A: ||VIEL1A
A: viel
A: ||MEHR1*
A: mehr
A: ||ANDERS2
A: anders
A: GEBÄRDEN1A*
A: ICH1*
A: ÜBERNEHMEN1*
B: How would you sign ‚my husband’?
B: MEIN1
B: mein
B: EHEMANN1
B: mann
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: was
B: WAS-BEDEUTET1*
B: DU1*
A: MY HUSBAND, like this.
A: ||MEIN1
A: mein
A: ||EHEMANN1
A: mann
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
B: I don’t, I sign ‘my husband’ like this.
B: ICH2*
B: RING1A^*
B: mein mann
A: My gran signs “I am married” this way.
A: ICH2^*
A: bin
A: VERLOBUNG2^
A: verheiratet
A: $INDEX1
A: ICH1*
A: “I am married.”
A: ICH2*
A: ich bin
A: VERLOBUNG2^
A: verheiratet
B: I sign ‘my husband’ like that.
A: We both sign TO-MARRY, don’t we?
A: ICH2
B: HEIRATEN4*
B: mein mann
A: $INDEX1
A: HEIRATEN3A*
A: verheiratet
A: Would you sign “I am married“ in the same way?
A: $INDEX1
A: ICH1
B: “Married“, yes.
B: HEIRATEN3A
B: verheiratet
A: HEIRATEN3A*
A: heiraten
A: My gran signs ‘to marry’ like this.
A: $INDEX1
A: verheiratet
A: ICH2
A: VERLOBUNG2^
A: “I am married“ could be signed like this, too.
A: ICH2
A: HEIRATEN4
A: heiraten
A: Do you have any ideas for other words?
A: IDEE2A*
A: WORT3
A: wort
A: Then I could certainly think of something else.
A: ICH2
A: EINFALLEN1
A: ZUSAMMENHANG1A
A: But I am running out of ideas right now.
A: ICH2
A: GLAUBEN2B
C: How about FAMILY?
A: I use the sign FAMILY.
A: FAMILIE1
A: familie
C: There is an older sign, FAMILY, as well.
A: ICH2*
A: Yes, FAMILY.
A: FAMILIE1
A: familie
A: Okay, my gran signs FAMILY.
B: The sign for ‘family’ is like this.
A: $INDEX1
B: FAMILIE4
B: familie
A: FAMILIE4
A: familie
C: Exactly.
A: ||ACHTUNG1A^*
A: FAMILIE4
A: familie
B: Of course, FAMILY, like that.
B: $INDEX1
B: FAMILIE4
B: familie
A: ACHTUNG1A^*
C: Nothing else? Keep thinking.
B: FAMILY, like that.
B: FAMILIE1
B: familie
A: I use this sign for ‘little boy’.
A: ||ICH1
A: ||BUB8*
A: bübchen
A: Gran signs it like this.
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||BUB3
A: bübchen bub
A: ||$INDEX1
A: I sign LAD and gran signs LAD, like that.
A: ||ICH1*
A: ||BUB8*
A: bübchen
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||BUB3
A: bübchen
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: I sign ‘girl’ like this, she signs it like that.
B: I sign LAD, like this.
B: BUB6*
B: bub
A: MÄDCHEN1*
A: mädchen
A: $INDEX1
A: mädchen
A: ICH2
A: ||MÄDCHEN3
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: I sign MUM, and gran signs it like that.
A: ||ICH2
A: ||MAMA11
A: mama
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||MAMA1B
A: mama
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
B: I sign MUM.
B: MAMA1B
B: mama
A: I use the sign FATHER.
A: ||ICH2
A: VATER8*
A: vater
A: Gran signs FATHER.
A: $INDEX1
A: VATER1*
A: vater
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: I sign it differently.
A: ICH1*
A: ANDERS2
A: I sign DAD, like this, but she just says “Dad”.
A: ||PAPA8
A: papa
A: ||$INDEX1
A: papa
A: ||ICH2
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: ||$GEST^
A: papa
A: I sign DAD.
A: papa
A: ||PAPA8
A: ||ICH2*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
C: Can you think of an older profession that perhaps doesn’t exist anymore today?
A: There is TAILOR.
A: ||$GEST-OFF^
A: ||SCHNEIDER1*
A: schneider schneider
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: TAILOR.
A: ||SCHNEIDER1*
A: schneider
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: I don’t know how people used to sign it.
A: ||FRÜHER1*
A: früher
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: NICHT3A*
A: weiß nicht
A: TAILOR.
A: schneider
A: ||SCHNEIDER1*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: Gran signs HOUSEWIFE.
A: $INDEX1
A: oma
A: HAUSFRAU1
A: hausfrau
B: What does that mean? Good God!
B: WAS-BEDEUTET1
B: [MG]
B: $GEST^
A: My gran signs TAILOR.
A: $GEST^
A: ||$INDEX1
A: meine
A: ||ICH1
A: MEINUNG1A*
A: $INDEX1
A: oma
A: SCHNEIDER1*
A: schneider
A: My gran signs HOUSE WOMAN.
A: MEIN1*
A: OMA1C*
A: oma
A: hausfrau
A: HAUS2
A: ||FRAU1A*
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: Another occupation I can think of is cleaning lady [TO-CLEAN-UP-FLOOR] right now.
A: ||BERUF1B*
A: beruf
A: ZUSAMMENHANG1A*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: putzfrau
A: PUTZEN-BODEN1^
A: $GEST-OFF^
C: Is there a difference in how young and old people sign professions? What do you think?
A: My granny and I both sign TO-CLEAN-UP-FLOOR the same way.
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: ||ICH1*
A: PUTZEN-BODEN1
A: putz{frau}
A: GLEICH8*
A: [MG]
A: PUTZEN-BODEN1
A: putz{frau}
A: We sign it the same way.
A: GEBÄRDEN1B*
A: ||GLEICH8*
A: [MG]
A: I sign TAILOR.
A: SCHNEIDER1
A: schneider
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||ICH1*
A: ich
A: She signs TAILOR, like that, a little more professional.
A: schneider
A: $INDEX1
A: SCHNEIDER1*
A: ||GESCHICKT1
A: [MG]
A: ||GEHÖREN1^
A: I sign ‘tailor’ like that anyway.
A: ICH2
A: ich
A: SCHNEIDER1*
A: schneider
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: Nowadays you can sign SEWING-MACHINE instead.
A: nähmaschine
A: NÄHMASCHINE1
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: How do you sign P-O-L-S-T-E-R-E-R [upholsterer]?
B: $ALPHA1:P-O-L-S-T-E-R
B: polsterer
B: WAS-BEDEUTET1
B: was
A: I sign TO-UPHOLSTER.
B: $INDEX1
A: POLSTERN1
A: polsterer
B: TO-UPHOLSTER.
B: POLSTERN1*
B: polsterer
A: Do you mean ‘uphosterer’?
A: POLSTERN1
A: polsterer
A: MEINUNG1A*
A: meinst
A: DU1*
A: du
A: POLSTERN1
A: ‘Uphosterer’?
A: polsterer
B: I thought P-O-L-S-T-E-R-E-R [upholsterer] would be signed differently.
B: $ALPHA1:P-O-L-S-T-E-R
B: polsterer
B: SCHLAGEN1^
B: polsterer
B: DENKEN1B*
B: dachte
B: anders
B: ANDERS6*
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: I sign TO-UPHOLSTER.
B: POLSTERN1
B: polsterer
A: I sign TO-COOK, like this.
A: ICH1
A: KOCHEN3B
A: kochen
A: TO-COOK is another example.
A: BEISPIEL1*
A: KOCHEN3B
A: Gran signs TO-COOK.
A: ||$INDEX4
A: ||KOCHEN1
A: kochen
B: I see, TO-COOK.
B: KOCHEN1
B: kochen
A: Yes, TO-COOK.
A: KOCHEN1
A: I sign DOING THE DISHES like this, she signs it like that.
A: ||ICH1
A: SPÜLEN-GESCHIRR1A
A: spülen
A: ||$INDEX4
A: SAUBER-MACHEN2A*
A: spülen
B: DOING THE DISHES?
B: SAUBER-MACHEN2A*
B: spülen
A: Yes, DOING THE DISHES.
A: SAUBER-MACHEN2A*
A: spülen