Comments on: American Sign Language, Mimicry, and Animist Speech http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/ Revitalizing Riddles, Mythic Story, Family, Village and Land. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:16:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-24140 Willem Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:13:14 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-24140 Andrea- I don't know of any such resources. Certainly if I run across someone I will pass them on to you! Andrea-
I don’t know of any such resources. Certainly if I run across someone I will pass them on to you!

]]> By: andrea scheyhing http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-24138 andrea scheyhing Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:03:03 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-24138 I wonder if my daughter, Lily Scheyhing, who is trying to do a thesis on the American Plains Indians sign language might be able to contact someone who speaks this language.Maybe you could know of someone. She is having a difficult time finding someone to talk with...Thank you so much for a reply to this question of mine. I wonder if my daughter, Lily Scheyhing, who is trying to do a thesis on the American Plains Indians sign language might be able to contact someone who speaks this language.Maybe you could know of someone. She is having a difficult time finding someone to talk with…Thank you so much for a reply to this question of mine.

]]> By: The College of Mythic Cartography » Blog Archive » A World of Shape and Texture: American Sign Language and Navajo http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-24030 The College of Mythic Cartography » Blog Archive » A World of Shape and Texture: American Sign Language and Navajo Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:39:23 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-24030 [...] continue the conversation started earlier, about ASL’s animist/indigenous roots, I want to point out another really beautiful [...] […] continue the conversation started earlier, about ASL’s animist/indigenous roots, I want to point out another really beautiful […]

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23934 Willem Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:11:08 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23934 Yay! Another convert! You won't regret it...learning ASL, what a ride! Yay! Another convert! You won’t regret it…learning ASL, what a ride!

]]> By: sara http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23932 sara Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:29 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23932 Thanks for sharing about your experience with ASL. You've inspired me to learn it. I've felt compelled to before, but now I've got the energetic push I needed. : ) Thanks for sharing about your experience with ASL. You’ve inspired me to learn it. I’ve felt compelled to before, but now I’ve got the energetic push I needed. : )

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23927 Willem Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:46:39 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23927 Renee- No I haven't read that. It sounds interesting! I saw that movie starring Robin Williams, "Awakenings", about Oliver Sacks. Cool guy. Eric- Absolutely - body language, the universal language of life! I have an awesome book on dog language ("Calming Signals") that totally changed how I perceive and communicate with dogs. I used to hate them. Now I feel huge amounts of sympathy and connection to them. :) Renee-
No I haven’t read that. It sounds interesting! I saw that movie starring Robin Williams, “Awakenings”, about Oliver Sacks. Cool guy.

Eric-
Absolutely - body language, the universal language of life! I have an awesome book on dog language (”Calming Signals”) that totally changed how I perceive and communicate with dogs. I used to hate them. Now I feel huge amounts of sympathy and connection to them. :)

]]> By: Eric http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23926 Eric Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:40:53 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23926 From what I've learned I love sign language, and body language through practicing dog SHIFTing has changed my energies a bunch amazingly. Plus, although dogs pack and humans genetically and averagely tribe I still have learned a grip from pack that I bring with me to add to tribe and other groups I join. My practice shows that we all share a common langauge via our bodies and have sign languages and other languages that deepen this link, yet we humans just vary most greatly from other animals with our story talking evolvement; signifying that all have language and this that we humans have language and story sharing capabilities which raises our language kind (story showing). Jana, I sensed, Yoda, say, "How feels you?" yesterday when I caught episode 1 during lunch and Yoda definately talks funny, and trust me I have a clue what talking funny mean...I talk funny. Personally, I perfer saying "what do you feel/sense" to replace "how do you feel" since I have a feeling that humans feel with their senses, thus I refrain from asking "how do you feel" anymore and ask "what do you feel" for a replacement if I fancy a replacement, meaning at times I ask zilch for a replacment question and rather wait for others to share their feellings unasked for. Oh, I think I just crafted a redundancy, which means, time for me to go. Thanks for sharing Willem, RaVen, and Jana! From what I’ve learned I love sign language, and body language through practicing dog SHIFTing has changed my energies a bunch amazingly. Plus, although dogs pack and humans genetically and averagely tribe I still have learned a grip from pack that I bring with me to add to tribe and other groups I join. My practice shows that we all share a common langauge via our bodies and have sign languages and other languages that deepen this link, yet we humans just vary most greatly from other animals with our story talking evolvement; signifying that all have language and this that we humans have language and story sharing capabilities which raises our language kind (story showing).

Jana, I sensed, Yoda, say, “How feels you?” yesterday when I caught episode 1 during lunch and Yoda definately talks funny, and trust me I have a clue what talking funny mean…I talk funny. Personally, I perfer saying “what do you feel/sense” to replace “how do you feel” since I have a feeling that humans feel with their senses, thus I refrain from asking “how do you feel” anymore and ask “what do you feel” for a replacement if I fancy a replacement, meaning at times I ask zilch for a replacment question and rather wait for others to share their feellings unasked for. Oh, I think I just crafted a redundancy, which means, time for me to go.

Thanks for sharing Willem, RaVen, and Jana!

]]> By: Renee http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23924 Renee Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:07:50 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23924 Have you ever read Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks? interesting stuff, you might be into it.... Have you ever read Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks? interesting stuff, you might be into it….

]]> By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23921 Willem Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:53:09 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23921 I totally agree! :) I totally agree! :)

]]> By: Jana http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23920 Jana Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:05:29 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/06/19/american-sign-language-mimicry-and-animist-speech/#comment-23920 ASL seems like the closest possible experience, available right now, to actually immersing in a culture of spoken e-prime (or e-primitive). I keep wanting to use the signs with everyone, like they've suddenly charged my hands with the power to speak and now my hands don't want to shut up! woohoo! Thanks RaVen! I wonder whether long term practice expressing myself through the conventions of ASL will make spoken eprime into an accessible reality? Yet another way of retraining my B-English voice, but with the immediacy of conversational speed. It would thrill me to have someone come up and ask "That (implied: calls itself? you call? etc.) what?" instead of "What is that?". Or maybe, "Hi. How feels you?" instead of "How are you? ". Sounds funny to our ears right now, but what if? ASL seems like the closest possible experience, available right now, to actually immersing in a culture of spoken e-prime (or e-primitive). I keep wanting to use the signs with everyone, like they’ve suddenly charged my hands with the power to speak and now my hands don’t want to shut up! woohoo! Thanks RaVen!

I wonder whether long term practice expressing myself through the conventions of ASL will make spoken eprime into an accessible reality? Yet another way of retraining my B-English voice, but with the immediacy of conversational speed. It would thrill me to have someone come up and ask “That (implied: calls itself? you call? etc.) what?” instead of “What is that?”. Or maybe, “Hi. How feels you?” instead of “How are you? “. Sounds funny to our ears right now, but what if?

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