I'm starting to plan......

My parents are awesome.

In January they will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary.

What you should know:

• They are both introverted.
• If you have been reading this blog this last year, you know there has been some drama.
•  Mom losing her hearing and other issues that I still haven't written about yet.
• They both are highly independent.
• They don't have to be together to enjoy themselves
• They enjoy solitude
• They enjoy green spaces like parks and forests.

 I want to do something special.

• But... 
• Not overwhelming to my moms processing( that means going out to eat is out)... 
• My parents don't collect stuff, 
• Travel is a bit of a challenge (especially in January)  
• I am a broke college student.  

So what am I going to do??? I don't know. Any Ideas? 

The grades are in.....

Well the grades are in....

 I had one class that I was very concerned about. So when I got an email letting me know the grades were up, I was a bit concerned. So do you want to know how I did?
 I pulled straight A's. Even the linguistics class that I was struggling to understand.

With all the stuff that has been happening these last few months,I would have been content with B's. The only problem that I have now is I have set the bar high for myself.

The second year ASL students graduated this evening. I realized that I have literally a year left. I am going to get healthy for graduation. More to follow on that thought..

Finals&1year anniversary

I have no time to post about finals .

1 have 1 more to go. I can do this!


On a Different note.

It has been a year since my Mom lost her hearing. I am so proud of her. She continues to learn and  just keeps moving forward. Yes, I am an adult, but she is still my Mommy.
I have continued to learn ASL, she has withdrawn from the program because of the nerve damage that occurred at the same time as her hearing loss. I keep practicing my homework  with her at home so she learns more ASL.


I don't feel as stressed about leaving now. When she 1st lost her hearing, I thought I would never feel comfortable enough to leave home again. I was wrong. I feel like she has enough independence now for the most part that I can leave home when I graduate. My Dad is getting better at understanding all the nuances of deafness in my mom. (yes I did leave deafness lowercase, he isn't in the Deaf community, but mom is...) I feel like now they can cope, last year I wasn't so sure.

Life has been a rollercoaster this year, and while there were ups and downs, I am learning to be thankful in all of it. (its not easy). Soon I will add one more update to make it clear why this was not the easiest year for me. Soon.

To my family who might be reading this: Thank you for your support and understanding through these transitions.

 

Mothers Day

Today in the USA is Mothers day.

I have an awesome Mom. She has always rolled with the punches and life continues to throw them. She just keeps on going. This has not been the easiest year, and yet she still keeps at it. Life takes the 4P's ( Prayers, Practice, Perseverance, and Patience) according to my MOM. Her Faith hasn't been shaken. I am proud of her.

I also have people who I consider 2nd Moms. They are people who keep me grounded. You know who you are. Thank you. I email you out of the blue when life gets nuts, when there is too much drama and I need to vent, when the punches (life) knock's me on my butt and my mom doesn't have the life experience to understand. You just listen and then give me a hand back up. Thank you so much.

There are women of Faith who have no children that I consider "mom" too. Some of you have no idea that I think of you as Mom. You let me be a child when I was growing up too fast. You made sure I had a break in some of the most challenging times in my life.  I don't know if you will ever read this.

My life is not simple, but I am very blessed, by the strong women of faith who keep me on track.

Happy "Mothers" day.

Linguistis Study part 2

Part two of my linguistics review for my test. This means I am using my notes from class, so yes some of this might look familiar! I do have more notes than what I am posting
Note: some of this is directly from a handout in class. I am Reviewing For a FINAL!! This section is where I struggle  the most.

Syntax- aka GRAMMER! :( the Rules of language, what order do word belong? Verb Noun etc. ??
Parts of Speech

Nouns- Individuals,places, concrete and abstract things
ASL shows non plurals?
Determiners- (Some, Many, Few, Classifiers or Numbers)
Reduplication- ( trees,words)

Adjectives- Descriptors placed before a noun!

Predicate Adjective-descriptor placed after the noun, comments on the noun

Predicate Nouns-in ASL combines with the "be" verb

Verb Predicates

1. Simple verb (predicates)
2. Indicating Verbs - show movement  toward or location of an object.
1. agreement vers(Directional) you give me
3. Reciprocal verbs- understand each other
4. Locative verbs- where is the verb happen in asl?
5. Depicting verbs-show action or state of being!

Adverbs- Modifies adjectives or verbs

1.  Temporal aspect- Shows a period of time
2. Can indicate a specific time- Yesterday etc.
3. Negation- shake head- no not sleepy
4. Modified signs- Very tall
5. Mouth Morphemes- oo- tiny, th- Attitude type deal(don't care) , Cha- its huge!

Auxiliary Verbs- Will, Can, Must, Should- typically begin or end a sentence.

Prepositions - use classifiers and space to show- cup next to table.
Pronouns- Proximilization( fancy way of saying pointing)
Conjunctions- Connect words, clauses, or phrases.


I will review more and post more of my notes later but right now? Time for a break ! I really don't like this part of linguistics. Syntax is hard for me, I took grammar last in HS, that was a while ago. I understand that it is important. BUT! Its not my favorite part.

Linguistics Recap for Study Part 1!

Its that time of year.. Finals!! This post is LONG
My 1st final is tomorrow night. The class? Linguistics
I will be ok, it has been an interesting class. I have Linguistics 2 in August so I can't brain dump all of the information . Deep breath.

This is more a study guide for me. I am going to get technical.

Phonology -is the study of the smallest contrastive units of language
Morphology- is the study of the smallest meaningful units of language
Minimal pairs-words or signs different by 1 thing. ( like cat hat bat in English. Mom &Dad in ASL)
Noun Verb Pairs- Nouns move 1x verbs move 2xs
Lexicalized Vs Loan Signs- Loan signs can be recognized from their home country, lexicalized signs Is the process of creating a new sign by combining others. FS words, it happens. There are 8 possible featurs for lexicalization, but they are not all required to have a word/sign be lexicalized!
What makes a Language? There are 17 Criteria for Language -ASL IS a LANGUAGE
Semantics- the study of meaning
3 types of meaning
Referential- Dictionary- explicit-
Social- what it means to a the group of users -
Cognitive meaning-what it means triggered by associations and or emotions .The meaning can and does change to the individual ( what is rich =?)
Implicit- Oh you know!
Has to do with the social Identity of the user also. Age, race and background information has an influence of the users vocabulary.
Affective- what is my relationship with that word, what do I think it means (school example) Work also.
Idiomatic Meaning- keep the same meaning but looking or sounding like a natural or native user of the language. Idioms help.
The goal of every good interpreter is to be idiomatic, to lose most of our Hearing accent and "sound" ,more Deaf

Expansion Techniques- overall goal of expansion is to be natural and idomatioc, to give us more option when interpreting for our consumers.
CCDEFUR?
C. Couching-"you know" key phrase
C. Compare and Contrast- Hard not soft, near not far
D. Describe then do or just do- lost shoe, then look for shoe
E. Explain by Example- list of things example in notes is about goodwill donation.
F. Faceting-  think diamonds multiple ways to describe something.
U. Utilize your 3D space-Use what you got, eye gaze, role shift,,proximilzation (pointing)
R. Reiterations- doing something more than once. Math is Boring, lecture on and on Boring!

7 Hand shape Roots

1. Whole entity-Car CL:3
2. Surface - represents thing narrow or wide surfaces.
3. Instrumental- Hands holding something- Car - holding the stearing wheel, s hands 2
4. Depth and width- represents deep and wide and or layers of objects- Bowl
5. Extent- represents amounts/volumes or increase/decress in amount- flat tire
6. Perimeter shape- represent external shape of a object- coins- FF
7. On Surface- Plural large groups of __________- Audience or objects

Three Movement roots

1. Stative Descriptive- hands move to describe a stationary object
1. dinner table, elf shoes
2. Process- hands move to describe a moving object or object that appers to move
1. car passing by or a person typing
3. Contact hadn has downward motion for a stationary object
1. cup, car parked, bookshelf, person sitting.

most common type of sentence in: ASL - SVO- Subject Verb Object