Classroom deck

Talk · Deck

What this is

A 10-sign classroom deck. Every moving sign is a human signer from Dr. Bill Vicars / ASL University (Lifeprint). Nothing here was generated by Sora, Veo, or any other video model. AI assembled the page and cited the clips. It did not invent signs.

Minnesota

I looked for published Minnesota / Twin Cities classroom slang signs. I did not find a dictionary of local variants for bathroom, water, milk, and the rest of this deck. So this sample uses Lifeprint’s general US dictionary. If a Minnesota Deaf adult or interpreter uses a different form, that local form wins. Lifeprint itself says to follow local Deaf adults.

What is documented:

Minneapolis has a documented historical sign, from a student named Dean at the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault in the 1870s. Peers signed “Dean’s hometown”; later just Dean’s name sign for the city. Written up on Lifeprint from Doug Bahl (interviewed 1997 by Bob Cook, DHHSD). Clip in the Minnesota Commission oral-history video at 11:57 — not a kids flashcard, so it is not in this deck. Lifeprint: Minneapolis · Doug Bahl interview, 11:57
Signs of Minnesota (2004): 29 Deaf Minnesotans, recorded by Doug Bowen-Bailey, hosted by the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind & Hard of Hearing. Community history, not a vocab list. mn.gov page

I did not add “uff da,” Vikings slang, or guessed Twin Cities variants. If it isn’t cited, it isn’t here.

Left out on purpose

Lifeprint pages for help, more, and eat exist, but the YouTube on those pages is example sentences, not an isolated sign clip. I did not pretend a sentence video is a single-sign model. Same for please and stop: no dedicated Lifeprint YouTube clip on those pages.

Clips in this deck

YouTube embeds. Originals stay on Lifeprint / the Signs channel. Needs the internet.