How to relinquish your manhood in one easy step
by Pace on September 23rd, 2008 @ 2:04 pm in
Usual Error Project
Tags: usual error book
Our friends have been reviewing and editing the third draft of the Usual Error book, and the comments are starting to come in! Our favorite so far is on the “checking in” chapter, about the term “twinkle”. Our friend writes:
I wish you would rename this. I feel like I need to relinquish my manhood in order to “twinkle”.
(:
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3 Comments!
#2 Posted by 
Bre on September 24th, 2008 1:58 am | link
It actually doesn’t originate with that sign.
http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
In ASL, the sign for applause is–you know–clapping. ^_^
So yeah, claiming in the book that the origin is ASL will confuse a lot of Deaf folks here in the states. It’s an awesomely useful gesture, but it’s not from American Sign Language.
#3 Posted by 
Ann on July 26th, 2010 2:21 pm | link
As a CODA (child of Deaf adults), and growing up in Deaf culture, I feel the need to both validate Bre and Oliver, here. The “sign” for applause is indeed, clapping, but in many social events, at the end of a presentation, it is common to do the “silent applause/affirmation” that Oliver refers to, where hearing culture would normally applaud. This may not be a referenced sign in dictionaries, but it is found in numerous references to Deaf culture presentations. See CODA brothers on YouTube, or reviews of One Man Show and how reviewers note the Deaf community “applauding silently” by shaking their jazz hands in the air!
#1 Posted by
Oliver Danni on September 23rd, 2008 9:40 pm | link
I revel in my manly twinkle!
I’m used to calling it “jazz hands”, or just “silent applause/affirmation” and one of the comments I made in that section was that it would be good to acknowledge that the gesture actually originates from the ASL sign for applause. :)