Signing For Dummies (41 page)

Tournament
starts the Sign with both hands in the same handshape — index and middle fingers bent, palms facing addressee with your dominant hand higher than your passive hand. Now, alternate them up and down like a round robin tournament.

Lose
and
lost
are the same Sign. Make the manual V handshape with your dominant hand and then allow it to hit your passive palm.

Here’s how to put these Signs into ASL sentences. Replace these sport Signs with other sport Signs; you’ll have more ASL sentences packed in your punch.

English:
The soccer game was good.

Sign:
SOCCER GAME — GOOD

English:
He can box and wrestle.

Sign:
BOX — WRESTLE — BOTH CAN HIM

English:
If you play soccer, you can’t play basketball.

Sign:
IF SOCCER PLAY YOU — BASKETBALL PLAY YOU — CAN’T

English:
Our team won the race.

Sign:
OUR TEAM — RACE — WON

English:
He’s a football player.

Sign:
FOOTBALL — PLAY HIM

English:
What’s the score?

Sign:
SCORE WHAT Q

English:
Did we win or lose?

Sign:
WIN — LOSE — US WHICH Q

Setting out solo

You don’t have to compete with a bunch of other people to be active and enjoy the great outdoors. Table 8-3 gives you the Signs for sports that you can enjoy all by yourself if you want.