1.In New Zealand Sign Language, the sign for stalker literally looks like one finger is stalking another.
Hold up both index fingers and creep one towards the other.
2.The old ASL sign for Texas was literally waving finger guns.
Savs
That was updated recently…
Also, Ireland translates as POTATO + ISLAND.
4.My favorite is Microwave!
Take your pinky and flex it up and down…..
Its a micro wave!
5.My favorite sign is the sign for Ghost.
Like your pulling a soul out a body.
For ghost, you just wiggle the hand as you move it up.
Then move your thumb to your index finger a couple times.
It looks like youre jamming a needle in your arm.
I find that hilarious (if a bit insulting).
The letter S over each ear.
Sears
12.Put your fist around your thumb and pull your thumb out as if its pooping.
you’ve got the option to guess what that is.
Youve successfully signed El Paso!
(L pass O).
14.Bible is signed as Jesus + book.
Maybe its just me, but that always cracks me up.
Kind of like when you take two fingers and walk them like theyre legs?
So basically its a stick person falling over.
So after learning this, we would turn the same symbol upside-down for understand.
21.The sign for Facebook is just the sign of book on your face.
Like youre opening your face.
22.I really like lullaby you cradle one arm and rock an L to sleep.
Curious is pinching your neck with a curious look on your face.
23.The sign for lesbian in Auslan is your fingers in an L-shape against your chin.
It looks like a vagina pressed against your mouth.
Usually a bit awkward, so I prefer to use the sign for gay.
25.In Auslan (Australian Sign Language) the sign for God is the letter G + BOSS.
Always cracks me up.
The sign for truck is the same except the hands form the letter T.
28.Norwegian.
Snapping with the fist hand means snapping turtle.
31.The sign for the Fenway neighborhood in Boston is just the sign for baseball.
If you do it as though you are opening a middle or lower drawer, youre having sex.
33.Im taking ASL in college right now, my professor is actually deaf!
34.The sign for Anthropology looks a lot like the sign for I dont know.
35.Coke is made by making an x-shape on your upper arm, as if youre shooting up.
36.I think Ohio is making the sign for o and raising it, o high o.
37.When initially learning ASL, I meant to sign that I was going to work.
Instead I indicated I was going to go bang my girlfriend from behind.
The signs are surprisingly similar.
Work is holding one fist above the other and tapping down, wrist-to-wrist.
Doggy style is the same but twisted 15 degrees with a little oomph.
38.One that struck me is the word for Holocaust.
Its the sign for Jewish and then the sign for destruction.
Very easy to get these two mixed up!
It was supposed to look like the CN tower next to the Rogers centre.
Younger brother is the same, only down.
Point to the nosey person.
Means their nose is all up in your business.
45.Sign milkshake by making a fist away from your body, and move your wrist up and down.
Sign masterbate by making a fist towards your body, and move your wrist up and down.
46.Sign milk over and over and move it passed your eyes.
47.Baby = Cradling in your arms back and forth.
Garbage = Pretending to pick something out and nonchalantly throw it out.
Combine to make abortion.
48.My hard of hearing partner informed me that stroking your neck to chest means youre hungry.
However, doing it more than once means youre horny.
So when I do it, she asks if I meant Im really hungry or if Im horny.
The correct answer is yes.
She combines the two because she says shes addicted to Starbucks.
Another one is signing YELLOW and then the sign/classifier for FLOOD going up your face to your eye.
It means you have to pee really badly.
