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"i" handshape; pic of the back of a human hand & in ASLWrite.
Source: 2025 ASLWrite Visualizer Summary Guide (I've labelled this a few different ways but its all the same) from slwrite.org/aslwrite.com
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"Rock On" handshape*; pic of the back of a human hand & in ASLWrite.
Source: 2025 ASLWrite Visualizer Summary Guide (I've labelled this a few different ways but its all the same) from slwrite.org/aslwrite.com
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*not the official name
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ILY (I Love You) handshape, represented via picture of a back of a human hand and in ASLWrite.
Source: 2025 ASLWrite Visualizer Summary Guide (I've labelled this a few different ways but its all the same) from slwrite.org/aslwrite.com
#ASLWrite
#SLWrite
#digibet
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L handshape, in a picture of the back of a human hand and in ASLWrite.
Source: 2025 ASLWrite Visualizer Summary Guide (I've labelled this a few different ways but its all the same) from slwrite.org/aslwrite.com
#ASLWrite
#SLWrite
#digibet
#learning
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B handshape, closed thumb in both picture of the back of a human hand and in ASLWrite
Source: 2025 ASLWrite Visualizer Summary Guide (I've labelled this a few different ways but its all the same) from slwrite.org/aslwrite.com
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#digibet
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B handshape, Open hand, thumb to the left in visual hand and in ASLWrite
Source: 2025 ASLWrite Visualizer Summary Guide (I've labelled this a few different ways but its all the same) from slwrite.org/aslwrite.com
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Page 1 of the 2025 Updated Visual Guide: base digibet. This page shows two "B" hands (thumb out and thumb closed)"L", "Y" "I" and "ILY" Hand, "X" and "Equals" hand (thats not an official label) "S", "A", "Hitchhike thumb"(also not an official label) and "Rock on" hand (see note for equals hand). There is also "O", "C" "G" "O with a curved finger", "C with a curved finger" "K", "F" "H" and "tentacle monster" hand (again, not the official label). To the lower right is the finger spelling digibet and the upper right are the numbers 1-5. In between is the "feel" hand 8, "cookie" hand and "travel hand" (promise, these are not the official labels, just how I see the shapes. slwrite.org is watermarked in the upper right hand corner.
Page 2 of the 2025 Updated Visual Guide: Motion and Grammar. The top rows show diacritics for hand movements using the 5 hand: "hinge" "rotate" "flutter" "rattle" and bottom/side edge indicators. To the right are three special motions: "crank" "rotate" "mesh", used in "BICYCLE" (two "S" fists) "PROGRESS" (two "equals" hands, but not the sign "EQUALS") & "MESH" (two cookie monster hands) respectively. The middle left panel shows neutral space (no body anchors) motion lines, illustrating the marks showing whether/how a movement is horizontal or vertical in all directions. A little foot line at the beginning of the motion line indicates the movement is on a vertical plane. A lack of little foot indicates the movement is on a horizontal plane. The bottom left panel illustrates the motion end marks. A period/dot at the end of a motion line shows where the motion stops. One dot indicates the motion is done once, two indicates the motion is done twice, three means it is done three times or more. A small perpendicular line at the end of a motion line that does not touch the motion line indicates the motion is a firm stop and a half arrow wing on the side of a motion line with a period endpoint at the tip of the motionline indicates the sign is repeating. The middle panel to the right shows the front and side profile body marks. Front profile has head, chin, neck, shoulders, arm, and waist body marks. The side profile has back of head, face, forehead, nose, chin and chest body marks. Lines on the front profile shoulders and side profile chest show the motion line directions. No foot is needed as the front profile is assumed to move vertically with left and right motions but no in and out motions, and the side profile is assumed to move vertically with in and out motions but no left or right motions. The lower right panel demonstrates facial grammar on the eyebrows (six of them) and lips (14 of them) w/ hand drawn sample faces. There is an slwrite.org watermark.
Page 3 of the 2025 Updated Visual Guide: Vocabulary in neutral space. This page shows words in ASLWrite written in neutral space. The words are: "Family", "Pah!", "Want", "Story", "Go ahead", "Progress", "First", "Book", "Work", "Study", "Important", "Rules", "Bread", "Wait" "Meet", "Same", "Still", "Expand/Visualize", "Contract/Conclude", "Square", "Grow", "Support", "Here", "You", "Me" "Those/Them" "Get Up" "Interview" There is an ASLWrite.com watermark in the upper right corner Note that Pah uses facial grammar that might be mistaken for side profile chin marks.
Page 1 of the 2025 Updated Visual Guide: Vocabulary in Body Space (or in a profile). The words are "Hello" (side profile; forehead) "Thank you" (side profile; chin) "Time" (front profile; forearm) "Country" (front profile; elbow, tilted) "Hope" (front profile; forehead) "Food" (side profile; chin) "Improve" (front profile; forearm) "Home" (front profile; chin) "d/Deaf" (side profile; face) "Woman" (side profile; chin) "Man" (side profile; forehead) "Ask" (side profile; chest) "Hungry" (front profile; shoulders) "Wish" (front profile; shoulders; mouth mark grammar) "Understand" (side profile; forehead) "Tomorrow" (side profile; chin) "Mine" (front profile; shoulders) "Satisfied/content" (front profile; shoulders; mouth mark grammar) "Enjoy" (front profile; shoulders) "Why" - variant (front profile; forehead; eyebrow mark grammar) "Why" - variant (front profile; forehead; eyebrow mark grammar)) "Follow" (side profile; chest) "Cry" (side profile; face; eyebrow mark grammar) "Serious" (front profile; chin) "Know" (side profile; forehead) "shake-head-no" (front profile; forehead) "nod-head-yes" (side profile; forehead) "Surprise" (front profile; forehead) "Touch heart" (side profile; chest) "Touch throat" (front profile; neck) "Remember" (side profile; forehead) "Inheritance" (side profile; chest) "Hello", "Wish", "Satisfied/Content", "Why" variants, "Cry" and "Surprise" have facial grammar marks that might be mistaken for body marks
The 2025 Updated Simple Guide with Base Digibet by Slwrite.org and ASLWrite.com
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Working on two different drafts for substack and tumblr, same concept different examples. Meanwhile I need to continue re-orienting why I'm hear and what I'm doing. What I'm preserving how and why.
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Top heading: all caps TEASE. subheading says *potentially directional 2nd line has 3 versions of tease, all slanted right, all containing an "X" hand in the lower left position, finger tip facing down, slanted lower left to upper right, right "X" hand in upper right corner, reversed, finger tip facing up, slanted same direction. All contain a motion line w/ two endpoints (indicating moves twice), slanted from lower left to upper right. Differences are location of motion line, closeness of "X" palms, slant depth of "X" fingers 1st & 2nd written in BeeOlive ASLWrite Font V1.7. 3rd handwritten Beneath each a caption identifies author, year, medium 3rd-5th lines = copyright use info & source links The 1st, blue, by ASLWrite Fan, 2026. Its motion line starts in the palm of the left "X" hand, continues diagonally thru the palm up to the right & ends just outside the palm curve of the right "X" hand". There is a space btwn the top of the left "X" hand and the right. The entire line-up of the hands/motion line is symmetrical. The 2nd, green, by Minnie B, 2026. The two "X" hands have almost no space btwn the top of the left "X" hand finger & the bottom of the right "X" hand palm. The motion line runs diagonal, above, & parallel to both hands. The bottom of the motion line lines up w/ bottom of the left "X" hand finger but does not overlap. The end points line up w/ middle of the right "X" hand but does not overlap. The "X" fingers bend at a 90 degree angle. The line up of the two hands is symmetrical The 3rd, the left "X" hand is nearly horizontal, slightly angled up from bottom left of palm to top right of knuckle. The motion line comes from the middle of the Left "X" hand palm in an upward right slant at a <45 degree angle to the top "X" finger. The right "X" hand follows the plane of angle from the motion line. The X hand fingers are each slightly slanted towards the palm. 1&2 copyright use share w/ credit, no ai use. 3, CR use unknown shared fair use educational
More TEASE (directional?)
Credit: Left - ASLWrite Fan, 2026*; Middle - Minnie B 2026*; Right - Jolanta Lapiak 2019**
Usage:
*noncommerical w/credit, no ai use
**unknown; fair use educational
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Two versions of writing the same sign for "TEASE" the left version is typed using the BeeOlive v.17 ASLWrite font, credit ASLWrite Fan 2026. The right version is handwritten by Adrean Clark, 2025. A link leads to a copy right policy and both images are marked as "Share non-commercial with attribution, no ai use. the biggest difference between the left and right image is that the movement line overlaps the left "X" hand shape in the handwritten version and the movement link only touches the top of the left "X" handshape in the typed version. This decision was made because overlapping the line in the typed version clutters the sign to the extend that it becomes difficult to read the handshape
Tease
Credit:
Left side typed w/ BeeOlive V1.7 by ASLWrite Fan, 2026
Right side Handwritten by Adrean Clark 2025, sourced from the ASLWrite dictionary at slwrite.org
Usage: non-commercial with credit, do not put into ai
Sign: www.handspeak.com/word/2160/
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Tease
Credit:
Left side typed w/ BeeOlive V1.7 by ASLWrite Fan, 2026
Right side Handwritten by Adrean Clark 2025 and sourced from the ASLWrite dictionary at slwrite.org
Usage: non-commercial with credit, do not put into ai
Sign:
www.handspeak.com/word/2160/
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Even if ASLWrite/SLwrite were to fall out of usage permanently, I dont want to see its traces disappear. Its so important to archive & preserve the history and contents of its trajectory.
I'll do my best to play a little part.
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I was researching signing systems for a Tumblr post & it made me feel so strongly the danger to a writing system being a) spearheaded by only one or two people b) having a writing systems materials only up on one or two sites.
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I'm going to make a new version of this later. Looking at this more closely I realize that I figured out "new" by looking at my hands in a reclining position. I'm not sure I think that is accurate. I'll be correcting this later.
Note to self: sit upright to model your signs
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Four lines 1st: typed in gallaudet fingerspelling font, which puts each English letter in a visual handshapes. It says Happy New Year". "Happy" is blue, "New" is maroon, "Year" is gray. 2nd: typed in BeeOlive V1.7 typing font. It says "Happy New Year". Happy is written w/ a 3-sided rectangle, open side down, which represents collar bones & shoulders. In the underneath inside left of that shape is a horseshoe. Its open side faces left, representing a B hand. A tiny vertical dash represents the thumb on the B hand. Above that is a vertical curved line endingin 2 dots. This represents the hand motion. "New" is written with 3 shapes. The first starts from the left with a dropping open triangle whose right tip turns into a straight horizontal line. The whole shape sits slightly high and represents the left hand. The third is the same as the first but reversed left to right. The whole shape sits slightly low and represents the right hand. Between the two, in the middle space, is a curved horizontal line with the end point to the left. This shows the right hand moving across the left hand to make the sign "New". "Year" is written with three O shapes lined up semi-vertically. They are off center due to limitations in the font. The top & bottom O's represent fists. Each has a short curved slash for a thumb (from the right for top/left for bottom). The O in the middle is very small. It represents top fist rotating around the bottom fist. A contact dot at the top of the bottom O (left fist) represents where the top O (right fist) stops. The 3rd line is written in ASLWrite BeeOlive V1.7 fingerspelling digibet. There is only one P digit. Underneath it is a line with a dot to the left, showing letting doubling. The 4th line is a hand written version of the second line. The main differences are that the hand shapes in "New" are curved C's without the thumb and the circles and dot in year are fully lined up vertically. All lines share the same colors/color order.
Ringing in the New Year. Here's to a more focused blue skying in 2026.
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Here's to a new year and a more coherent and organized approach to sharing #ASLwrite / #slwrite and slwrite.org, and just really any of it
#ao3 finally let me in and I've been familiarizing myself.
First, the American Sign Language category is over-run with spoken langauges
Second, crack fic, wow
Third, really glad I'm reading ALLLL of the FAQs before doing much
Fourth, working away on the pieces I want to post
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ASLWrite sign for "TELL-ME" written in black digital pen by Adrean Clark. The upper left half of the image contains a shape like half of a regular vase, which represents the side profile of the lower half of the face. The top right of the shape, a diagonal line slanted to the upper right, represents the lower half of the nose, and the bottom hump of the main shape to the right represents the chin. Inside the chin is a dot that is known as a contact point. To the lower right of the dot at an angle, outside of the chin location, is a line slanted left, with a slash through the base. This represents the 1 finger and the dot represents the contact point where the 1 finger (a raised index finger) touches the chin. This is the first part of the word "TELL-ME" which contains the concept "SAY" "SAYS". Underneath the 1 digit is a line that curves to the space underneath the chin, where the chest would be if it were drawn (it is not drawn). At the end of this line is a dot, which represents where the index finger would point on the chest and represents "ME". The line represents the motion of the index finger from the contact point on the chin to the end of the motion on the chest, converting "SAY" and "ME" into "SAY-TO-ME" or "TELL-ME"
Okie dokie, fixing the very last drop of the word tell me, from before
"Tell me"
Credit: Adrean Clark
View: Half Face
Mode: Handwritten, computer drawing program
Reference link: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
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Picture of the ASL sign "TELL-ME", digitally hand written in blue ink. The first portion starts at the left; the shape has a round hump at it's top right, representing the upper half of the face; a pointy hump as it's middle right, representing the nose of the face; and a round hump at it's bottom right, representing the chin of the face. To the outside right of the chin, very close, is a slanted line with another slanted line at its base. This represents the one finger, the index finger, tilted and pointing at a dot inside the chin. There is a single dot on the middle right of the inside of the chin, which the finger digit points at, which represents a contact point where the finger will touch. This dot is known as a contact point and indicates that the finger touches the chin. These combined is the beginning of the concept "TELL" by initiating the concept "SAY" Almost below it is a line that curves from the chin to underneath the face where a chest would be in the blank spot. This represents the motion of the finger moving from the chin to an imaginary chest. Adding this motion begins the change of the sign from "SAY" to "TELL". At the end of that curved line is another dot. This line is known as an end point and indicates where the motion stops. Because the motion implies it stops on the speakers chest, this indicates "ME" All together this spells the sign "TELL-ME"
Alrighty, just fixing the last few vocab drops:
Credit: Minnie B
"Tell me"
View: Full Face
Mode: Handwritten using microsoft paint 3d
Reference link: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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I'm going to have to delete and redo these before dropping the last one (or two) because I forgot to tag them with #ASLWrite and #SLwrite. The alt text took me a long time so I want to preserve that before I do.
ASLWrite spelling for the word Tell me. It consists of the side profile full face body anchor (locative), an initial contact point that looks like a period to the right of the chin, the "one" single finger digit, tilted 45 degrees left, thumb left right slash tilt, at the top of a curved motion line that is alined under the initial contact point and curves from that point to the blank area below the chin, ending in another period called a end point. The text (the written sign) is black.
Here we go first one dropped today, I will drop one a day for TELL-ME until all 3-5 are posted:
Credit: Minnie B
"Tell me"
View: Full Face
Mode:Bee Olive ASLWrite TypeFont 1.6 using textboxes in paint3D for alignment
Reference link: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
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Big ole caveat: Im not a lawyer, this isnt legal advice, its giving info u need or might ask about or not even thinking of. If u need a lawyer-level, get one. Otherwise rules of thumb: credit; no ai; if you make bank get permission; nobody owns the language itself
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One final thing. Copyright dont apply if you handwrite or type these yourself (no ai tho). If I wrote cat & you screenshot it, our respective policies apply. If I write cat & you look at my writing & then copy the spelling (by hand or type), thats all yours to use as you see fit
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In order of who you should follow when in doubt goes: Adrean Clark(a Deaf founder of ASLWrite); Minnie B (a group member active for a few years); anyone else who is in the slwrite.org group that is active enough to seem like they know whats up; me. Im at the bottom of that list
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Medium causes differences (I'm using a different typing version and I'm restricted by how it moves) Ease of writing comes into play (AC and MB have different preferences on whether the dot goes inside or outside, probably because of the mediums they use)
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You're going to notice something right away, and that is even though they kind of look like each other, they have noticeable differences. MB's version, the dot is outside the chin; AC's version its inside; in my version the motion points and hand is lined up differently
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You'll see my try(in BeeOlive ASLWrite Type Font V1.7), a straight typed version, w/out drawing program adjustment/text boxes/3D paint). Using the pic of my version will fall under merging Minnie B's permission policy and slwrite.org dictionary copyright policy (Adrean Clark)
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One of the links has a version "tell me" by Adrean Clark. Its in the fb dictionary, migrated from FB to SLWrite.org & her copyright policy is here (vocab: "area/space" slwrite.org/t/ASL%20Dict...:
It boils down to credit her always & u cant use the image for profit
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The sharing permissions for MB's work are like the non-commercial share and share alike with Creative Commons (CC) but has an explicit no ai rule - not to be used as training data, input into ai, or used to create materials for/ from ai. This makes it not CC license.
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ok! time to drop an actual vocabulary word. I'm going to start with the word in my profile picture, which is actually two different ways to write the word "TELL-ME"
big credit since this pic is from the ASLWrite FB dictionary, written by Minnie B., used with permission
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