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{SPEAKER name="John Ennis"}
Uhh, can you show us some of those emergency signs?
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{SPEAKER name="Male Audience Member"}
I can't, but my daughter could.
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{SPEAKER name="Don Pettingill"}
I would suspect maybe it's not international, but it is universal all over America, and we have sign language dialects, I say.
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But some signs are very standard, because they are important for people to know.
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Maybe we have 50 signs that are emergency. I can't think of any right now.
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Police. And a policeman is suppose to know when we point to our ear, we can't hear, those kind of things. Sometime that's an emergency. [[audience laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Normally, I have seen a lot of handouts and printed cards used by police departments and so on.
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They tend to be pictures that are then taught in classes and workshops, and so on, of the most important signs drawn from American Sign Language.
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I think that's mostly what's taught as emergency sign language.
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Yeah, it is American Sign Language, ASL. Did you have something earlier, Jan?
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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grenell (interpreter)"}
I think one important emergency thing, is this sign [[clapping]].
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{SPEAKER name="Audience member"}
Tell us the joke? Tell us the joke?

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
She was saying, I think the most important sign is this one.
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{SPEAKER name="John Ennis"}
Tell them what that is.
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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Would one of our participants like to explain that?

{SPEAKER name="John Ennis"}
[[talk over]] Do you know what that is?

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{SPEAKER name="John Ennis"}
What is that?

{SPEAKER name="Child in audience"}
I love you [[cheer and clapping]]
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{SPEAKER name="John Ennis"}
I love you, right. That's showing the eye for "I."
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And then the "L" comes off of here - to symbolize love.
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And then with this down as the "Y", which is the initial for You - so they put it together shows "I love you".
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Into--three words into the one sign.
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Transcription Notes:
Speaker is Don Pettingill - recognize his voice from other Deaf recordings where he was introduced.