Classifiers "CL1" (quick review) (Depictive Signing) American Sign Language (ASL) (L04) CL-1 / CL:1

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Classifiers "CL1" (quick review) (Depictive Signing) American Sign Language (ASL) CL-1 / CL:1 (L04)
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It is recommended that you complete Lessons 1 through 30 of the Lifeprint (ASLU) Curriculum (or equivalent such as having completed a college-level "ASL 2" course) prior to watching this video.
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A person walking. Pencils side by side. A square with a circle inside. One way streets. Intersections. A ball's path through the air. A snake moving across a surface. A single tear. A caterpillar crawling up a tree. A worm tunneling upward. Spitting straight downward. A person running into another person and both falling down.
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3:42 so when you're talking about a water moccasin how would you sign that? would it be with the head up because that is how they swim or would it be like a normal snake?

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For a water moccasin you should use an index finger that would be at a slightly upward angle to match (or "depict") what the snake looks like in real life.
Sometimes we depict the thing or animal but other times we simply depict the path taken by the animal (or thing / or person). If we were just depicting the path -- then the angle of the index finger would be of less concern.
Compare the depiction of the path of a home-run baseball. We use an index finger to depict the flight path (not a claw hand to depict the ball itself). We "can" show a ball as a fist or a claw hand interacting with the world (as in a fist hand showing a ball knocking someone on the head).