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AROUND 19-98 ME MOVE-TO NEW-YORK

(RECENT hard-RAIN)top (ROOF NOW ME NEED FIX++)aff

(MY FRONT DOOR (2h)CL:CC(frame))top CAMERA CL:claw(put above door)

This phrase is signed as "I RIDE BUS ARRIVE CLASS". This sign for BUS is more English-based, but is used often. Another way to sign BUS is the lexicalized version #BUS. You can see an example of #BUS in the conversation in ASL 1 - Unit 5.

WANT INTRODUCE MY FRIEND, fs-JULIE.

This phrase uses a classifier and is signed as "I CL:1(me)"go" CL:1(me)"come back"". Christine uses the 1-handshape to show herself leaving and then returning.

This phrase is signed as a rhetorical question: "I STUDY WHY? BECOME INTERPRETER". The first part of the phrase uses the yes/no facial expression (eyebrows up) and the second part uses an affirmative facial expression.

This phrase is signed as "I TAKE-up ASL CLASS". This sign for TAKE is different from the sign you would use to indicate that you took (or got) something (i.e. TAKE-from).