Y@Palm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Sidetoside
(Redirected from Y@Palm-PalmDown-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Sidetoside)
American Sign Language edit
Alternative forms edit
- (with the nondominant handshape “Flat B”) Y@Palm-PalmDown-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Sidetoside
Etymology edit
Apparently related to the sign Y@Palm-TipUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Sidetoside (“subway”).
Production edit
- This two-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
- Posture the nondominant hand in the “open B” handshape in front of the center of the chest, nondominant palm facing up. Posture the dominant hand in the “Y” handshape with the dominant hand at the palm of the nondominant hand, dominant palm facing down.
- Move the dominant hand from side to side across the nondominant hand while holding the nondominant hand still.
Proper noun edit
Upload png, jpg, or gif image. (ASL gloss: NEW-YORK)
- New York (the U.S. state)
- 2008, xcrippledhope, Tonight - FM Static - ASL, 0:00:26:
- (ASL gloss) ARRIVE NEW-YORK EVERYTHING FEEL CORRECT — “When [we] arrived in New York, everything felt right.”
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2008, xcrippledhope, Tonight - FM Static - ASL, 0:00:26:
Usage notes edit
- This sign usually denotes the state of New York. It may occasionally denote the city, but the city is usually fingerspelled as #NYC.