Note: I'm going to briefly add here that ASL uses metaphor, figurative language, and idioms. If you continue your studies and reach advanced ASL topics you will learn more about such figurative ASL. However for now just know that just because an English word and an ASL sign share a label...
ASL - American Sign Language: free, self-study sign language lessons including an ASL dictionary, signing videos, a printable sign language alphabet chart (fingerspelling), Deaf Culture study materials, and resources to help you learn sign language. Good
ASL-LEX provides a linguistically motivated transcription of six phonological properties for each sign in the database: Sign type (Battison,1978), Location (Major and Minor), Selected Fingers, Flexion, and Movement. First and foremost, these transcriptions make it possible to easily select stimuli ...
Sloppy signing also causes careless errors that drastically affect meaning. In the famous example below, one handshape has three different meanings based on the location where the sign is made. Summer To be ugly Dry Making the right sign in the wrong place or vice versa affects meaning. "...
ASL - American Sign Language: free, self-study sign language lessons including an ASL dictionary, signing videos, a printable sign language alphabet chart (fingerspelling), Deaf Culture study materials, and resources to help you learn sign language. Good