Signing For Dummies (47 page)

English:
If you trade stocks, I will, too.

Sign:
IF TRADE STOCKS YOU — ME SAME

English:
Where do you work?

Sign:
WORK YOU WHERE Q

English:
The business is closed.

Sign:
BUSINESS CLOSED

Handling Signs about Your Home

You can give the grand tour without one word of explanation. Notice how the Signs in Table 9-4 let your fingers do the talking.

To sign
condo,
you fingerspell C-O-N-D-O, and to sign
apartment,
you use the abbreviation and fingerspell just A-P-T.

English:
Do you own your home or rent?

Sign:
YOUR HOME — OWN — RENT WHICH Q

English:
The door is locked.

Sign:
DOOR — LOCKED

English:
The garage has a window.

Sign:
GARAGE — WINDOW HAVE

English:
His house is big.

Sign:
HIS HOUSE — BIG

English:
Can I go upstairs?

Sign:
UPSTAIRS — GO ME CAN Q

Touring all the rooms

Touring the house room by room has many surprises. One surprise is that each room has its own Sign. (Well, maybe that’s not so surprising.) Table 9-5 gives most of them.

The Sign for
closet
has several motions, so here’s some explanation: With your dominant hand, make a hook with your index finger. This finger acts as a hanger. Your passive index finger acts as a pole on which to put the hangers. Put several “hangers” onto the “pole.”