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Hi everybody! So,
first of all I just kind of wanted to explain a little bit.
So you might notice that I'm not talking today.
I'm actually signing. There's a few reasons why
I decided to go ahead and sign today's video. I had a few
comments and kinda made me think. That's not the only reason I
decided to go ahead and do signing. I thought it might be helpful. I do remember one
person had commented a while back saying that they prefer watchign me sign because it helps
them to learn sign language. So I thought I'd go ahead and
give it a try. See about doing doing signing. I'll have a voice over and
CC. So if you prefer that I'm signing let me know!
Yay? Nay? If you like it, hit the LIKE
button below let me know! So today's
topic is arbitrary
vs iconic signs.
So somebody had requested what is the difference, what do they mean, give some
examples. So, first I'm going to teach you what each word is.
So the first word is arbitrary.
So arbitrary
is talking about that there's a sign,
the sign and the meaning don't have any relationship. There's no
connection between them. There's no specific reason why this sign
is related to that word. So for
comparing that to iconic signs. Iconic
signs, the signs themselves obviously are related to the word.
There's a meaning. I'm going to give you some examples. So we're going to start with the
iconic. So an example of an iconic sign would be like
ball. So obviously if you look at the sign,
it's in the shape of a ball. It looks like a ball!
So that's iconic. Another example
would be like curls, like curly hair.
So obvioulsy it's that way because the curl
goes in that shape. So when you do that with your hands,
its the curls. So another example
would be let's say underwear.
So the sign for underwear, at least what I use, is this.
Obviously you'd sign it closer down to where your
underwear are but you can't see that. So one of th reasons is because that is the
shopae of underwear. I'm drawing it with my fingers, or
bra which is up here. Same idea. So those are some examples of
iconic signs. So again the sign and the word have
an obvious meaning and connection. Now when we're talking about arbitrary
umm again arbitrary the sign and the
word don't really have any connection. There's no reason that sign
is with that word. So I'm trying to think of an example, like GOOD.
G-O-O-D. So, there's really
no reason why hand to your mouth, then it goes forward. That's
doesn't really represent the meaning of good.
Good meaning something is nice or happy or
you know good. BAD same idea. There's
really... I mean obvioulsy the two good and bad are the opposite so
you can see the difference but again, there's really no connection from
the sign to the word. Umm maybe another ummm concept
would be like APPLE for example.
Apple, umm the handshape
the placement, you know doesn't look like an apple.
Umm it's not the shape of an apple.
You it doesn't signify it's red. You know this right here, that
would be more signified that it's red. That explains what the apple is.
Like this handshape, I don't know? There's really no reason! I mean maybe
there is a reason, but I don't know what the reason is. It is not very
clear that that would be an apple. If I were signing that to a person who doesn't know
sign language and I signed this. They probably wouldn't know what I'm talking about.
If I signed like BALL for example, they might be
able to guess what that is. Maybe that's a ball or somthing because it's round
and it's circular. So, yeah that is the
difference between arbitrary and
iconic signs. So Zach since you made the request
hopefully that helps you. Again let me know if you guys prefer
that I used signing with the voicing and CC. If you think
that that's better or you prefer that I'm talking. You know I'm trying
to be accessible as I can for everybody. That's the reason I decided to go
ahead and start CC these videos. I had a few Deaf people say "why aren't you
CC your videos?" So I went ahead and did that. Some people still want me to
sign. So let me know. Uhh
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