Signing For Dummies (45 page)

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Chapter 9: Home and Office

In This Chapter

Talking about your office

Signing around the home

Furnishings in Sign

Setting up people spatially

You can set up shop at home or in a traditional office. This chapter tells you how to sign rooms and furnishings for both places. The final touch will be seeing how it all fits together.

Discussing Your Office

Many more Deaf people are working in office situations than ever before, so there’s never been a better time to know Signs around the office. Use these Signs if you want to show Deaf visitors around the office or if you have a Deaf colleague at your place of work.

Occupying yourself with occupations

The average American worker changes occupations many times in the course of a career. Table 9-1 gives you Signs for some of the occupations you may want to try at some point.

English:
When is payday?

Sign:
PAYDAY — WHEN Q

English:
She was terminated by Human Resources.

Sign:
H-R TERMINATE HER

Most people refer to Human Resources as “HR,” so this term is signed by fingerspelling H-R.

English:
The boss has my time sheet.

Sign:
TIME SHEET MINE — BOSS HAVE

Spying office supplies

Moving around the cubicle, you have many things to sign. Try the Signs in Table 9-2, and you’ll be the boss.

You may find the Sign for
clock
to be a bit tricky, but it’s really pretty simple. Touch your wrist where your watch is worn and then make both hands into manual C handshapes toward the wall.