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Transcription: [00:38:07]
[[applause]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
You notice that I translated a few signs to fit the manual alphabet. For example, "casting a spell." The real sign is that, but I cut off -- thumb and little finger to fit the "W" and make that as casting a spell so it can fit the story. See, a --
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Sign language -- in the last ten years, people have been finding that sign language has its own grammar and that's very exciting.
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One example of a grammatical rule is if you add this specific movement to a verb, for example, "look" -- "to look at," and you add this movement, it means "looking at continuously" or for a long time.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
For my brother's wedding I wrote the poem entitled "Circle of Life" and I chose verbs that could match with this motion and chose signs that have circles in them and combined them to show the idea of a wedding symbolized by the ring. Okay?
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I must add that my brother's name is Gill and my sister-in-law's name is Alice.

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{SPEAKER (interpreter)"}
God in heaven has planned this. Here in the world a circle by itself.
Yes, the world turns continuously.
Time passes by continuously.
The sun rises and sets continuously.
The years pass by continuously.
But once, a wonderful thing happened.
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Transcription Notes:
July 5, 1981 Deaf folklore tent Reel #3, end of section 4 (Hand shapes in ASL & manual alphabet) and beginning of section 5 ("Circle of Life" poem). Audio log: https://transcription.si.edu/view/18588/CFCH-FP-1981-7RR-0272_log_02