How do I distinguish signs for verb, noun, adjective and other figures of speech?
If you look up a word-sign in the Handspeak dictionary and are not sure of the right figure of speech, don’t be desperate. Generally, most of signs in the dictionary are general, unless mentioned specifically otherwise. For example, signs for “wise” and “wisdom” are generally the same; however, they do have figures of speech or different contexts within sentence structures, using facial expressions, sign modifiers, and other parameters (eg. movement, repetition, handshape, location). See the “plane” and “fly” example for reference.
