What are some interesting differences between American Sign Language and British Sign Language?
As you may know, ASL and BSL are two separate languages which arose independently of each other. Although there are some signs which appear similar to the other's, the lexicon is largely quite different in each language, and under ordinary circumstances, these two languages are mutually incomprehensible to the other. Perhaps the most obvious difference is that ASL uses a One- handed fingerspelling alphabet while BSL uses a two-handed alphabet. Although Americans like to think the one-handed system is superior in terms of quickness, anecdotal evidence has it that proficient fingerspellers in both systems can get through the alphabet in the same amount of time. Interestingly enough, the ASL sign for "Deaf" is the index finger touching the ear (or near it) and then touching the mouth (likely derived from a natural gesture Deaf people often use with non-signing hearing people to inform them that one is Deaf). The BSL sign is similar, except that the index and middle fingers (held together) make the movement. However, in BSL, the sign for "Hearing person" is the same sign for "Deaf" in ASL. In ASL, the middle finger (extended outward) is almost never used to form a sign, except for a small class of signs which can mean "screw that" or "to be screwed" (to put it politely). In BSL, the middle finger is used neutrally for some signs such as "holiday" (even though the use of "the bird" is known across the pond). Another difference that has been noted by Deaf Britons and Europeans in general is that while American Deaf engage in a great deal of fingerspelling, British Deaf tend to utilize classifiers as a way of new sign creation rather than resort to fingerspelling. These are just some of the differences that I know of.
How many different ways can you touch two or more fingers to each other on one hand?
26! Thumb, Index, Middle, Ring, Pinkie TI, TM, TR, TP; IM, IR, IP; MR, MP; RP TIM, TIR, TIP; IMR, IMP; MRP TMR, TRP, IRP, TMP TIMR,TIMP, TIRP, TMRP, IMRP TIMRP I almost missed one! Some combinations are awkward, but all combinations are possible to touch 2-5 fingers together on one hand.
What can I do to avoid my fingers touching the other strings while playing the guitar?
Do you mean on your fretting hand, or your picking hand?I’m going to tell you something very, very important now - the problem isn’t to keep your fretting hand fingers from touching other strings. The problem is to control when and how your fingers touch other strings!As a beginner, simply getting the notes you want to ring out is a hard enough problem. But to become an advanced player, you need to learn how to prevent notes from ringing on strings you don’t want making sounds. The technique for this is called muting, and it is done with both picking and fretting hands. Fretting hand muting technique is incredibly important. It’s one of the things that separates good guitarists from bad ones, and is essential to many guitar styles.For some learning, listen to some reggae, the rhythm guitar. Hear how dry and clipped-off the chords are - how they chop, rather than ring. That’s fretting-hand muting. When playing guitar - or most other instruments, when a note ends is just as important as when it begins! How do we control the duration of a note on the guitar? With muting.So don’t just think about keeping your fingers from touching other strings. Think about deliberately touching other strings, to keep them from ringing. Think about releasing your fingers without lifting them off the string, to kill the sound the string is making.When you start to learn that, whole worlds will open up for you.
Why can't you ever lift your ring finger up (dominate hand) without lifting your pinky?
Some may be able to, but my main point in this question is wondering why you can't lift your ring finger up on your dominate hand without lifting your pinky. It actually seems nearly impossible.
How can you count from 1 to 10 using only 5 fingers?
There are two common ways: let your thumb count as 5 and your other four fingers as one each. Numbering fingers from 1-5 (5 as thumb) you would first put down 1, 2, 3 and 4, then lift them all and put down 5 instead, Then add fingers 1-4 one by one again. Technically that counts from 0 to 9, but I'm sure you can adapt :) If you use both hands, you can count from 0 to 99 this way, and I'm told there are clever tricks you can learn to quickly add numbers as well.Another way is the "Egyptian" way (I have no idea if it's actually Egyptian). That's just using the thumb to point to the joints of your fingers in turn, starting at the index finger at the bottom, and ending at the little finger at the tip. That lets you count all the way to 16.Finger-binary has been proposed, but eh, it's harder than it looks, and it wins you only one bit per hand over the "Egyptian".
How many fingers wide is your forehead?
4 here too, seems to be an average. remember everyones hands are different sizes too, so its more of a proportion thing, but it also depends on your hairline, my brother has his dads hairline, so his is prolly like 5. When i was working in a summer daycare., we did a thing sorta like this, we measured different parts of our arms and legs and stuff to see if it was the same on most people. we found that on most of the kids in our class, there elbow to the tips of there fingers, was about the same as the top of there knee to there ankle. Try it, sit with one leg crossed over the other, and put your elbow on your knee and see if your fingertips touch your ankle :) fun stuff to keep kids occupied. Remember everyone is different. and everyone has something they don't like about themselves. but its what makes us all unique