Ceiling Fan or Fan?

[ammorgan]

Alex loves ceiling fans, always points at them.

I found the sign for ceiling fan here http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi

But it looks really difficult for a 2 year old plus I have no clue what they are signing in the middle. It looks like finger spelling to me but I don't know what they are spelling.

[mandible]

She spelled fan in the middle, I guess so you don't mistake the sign for spinning ceiling?

[ammorgan]

She spells fan differently than I do!

I learned N with the fingers completely down over the thumb. That's why it looked weird to me.

[mandible]

I completely agree! But SOOOOOOO many people fs with M's and N's having straight fingers that I had to get used to it. It's faster than curling your fingers in, I guess :)

[ammorgan]

I can fingerspell the whole alphabet myself but I only recognize it from the back LOL. I've never seen anybody fs the alphabet in front of me.

[mandible]

Girl, you need some ST! ABC Signs! Watch Rachel sign the alphabet and try to make out all the letters- it's way good practice! And aslpro.com has fingerspelling quizzes that are pretty good too :)

[jenml]

We sign fan like the ASL pro demo but without the beginning part (flat handed FAN part). We will FS F-A-N and then do the finger motion. It's obvious if it's a ceiling fan or floor fan by where and how you do the finger spinning part.

My 5 yr old son just does the spinning part without the FS part (right now), but we always FS.

[christy1246]

Hello

We use the pointer finger pointed up and twist it in a circle for our ceiling fan. I can't find any ASL dictionaries online to confirm if this is the true ASL sign, sorry if it's not.