Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of YOUR city and post to the List?

[KJ Boal]

I have a few here:

Red Deer (where I currently live):



 

Which is in the province of Alberta:

 



 

Edmonton, the capital of my province and the city where I was born:



 

Leduc, where I really grew up; the city is near an international airport, so
the sign looks like an airplane taking off:



 

Calgary, the other major city in my province, technically has two possible
signs. This is the old one, which isn't used any more - and there's a story
behind that! 



This sign refers to spurs on cowboy boots, because Calgary's biggest claim
to fame is the internationally-renowned rodeo called the Calgary Stampede.
However, Edmonton and Calgary have a MAJOR rivalry - if you're from one
city, you're expected to hate everything about the other!  In the spirit of
that rivalry, the Edmontonian Deaf began joking that the sign was really
related to the sign for "garbage" and the Calgary was "garbage". The
Calgarian Deaf, offended, decided to change the sign.

 

This is what they changed it to:



 

Personally, I'm sorry they changed it! The original sign had more character,
in my opinion. But I don't subscribe to the rivalry between the cities . . .
much. (smile) Anyway, hope that's not too many signs all at once!

KJ

 

 

From: SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages
[mailto:SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] On Behalf Of Valerie Sutton
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:25 PM
To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
Subject: Signs for Cities and States - can you write the name of YOUR city
and post to the List?

 

SignWriting List

March 27, 2013

 

Dear SW List:

Recently a Deaf guest from Ireland, Shane Gilchrist, visited us here in La
Jolla, and suddenly there were Deaf friends visiting in my home, from all
over San Diego!

 

It was a lot of fun for me in particular, because I have been a bit isolated
here - 

 

I learned a few signs that were new to me. One of them is the name of the
city where I live, La Jolla, California.

 

The sign for La Jolla is similar to the sign for California, except the hand
stays in one place while shaking. I just wrote it in the ASL SignPuddle
Dictionary:

 

http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/canvas.php?ui=1
<http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/canvas.php?ui=1&sgn=4&sid=1995>
&sgn=4&sid=1995

 



 

 

 

What is the sign for YOUR city?

 

 

 

Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
SignWriting List moderator
sutton at signwriting.org

Post Messages to the SignWriting List:
sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu

SignWriting List Archives & Home Page
http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist

Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages
http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L
<http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1> &A=1

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image005.png
Type: image/png
Size: 2121 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.png
Type: image/png
Size: 3883 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1662 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1779 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment-0003.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image013.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1789 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment-0004.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image014.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1282 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment-0005.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image015.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1422 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20130328/e590fb69/attachment-0006.png>