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<P>hello Val and list,</P>
<P>you're right Val, Santa Claus and Sinterklaas do have a lot in common ;)</P>
<P>The two signs I send were actually 2 different signs for Christmas (Kerstmis) sorry I didn't make it clear. One is the Antwerp regional sign, the other is used elsewhere in Flanders. </P>
<P>I just created the one I use most in the puddle ;)</P>
<P><IMG alt=Kerstmis src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-nl/dict/sl/Kerstmis.png" align=middle border=0> </P>
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<P>Greetings Kathleen<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Valerie Sutton" <sutton@signwriting.org></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [sw-l] WHAT IS YOUR SIGN FOR CHRISTMAS</I><BR>Date: <I>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:03:46 -0800</I><BR>>SignWriting List<BR>>November 30, 2005<BR>><BR>>Kasterlinden Bilinguaal wrote:<BR>>>Sinterklaas isn't yet over and your starting on Christmas already? <BR>>>:s ;)<BR>><BR>>Hello Kathleen and Everyone!<BR>>Smile. We are so fortunate to know each other. It is exciting to <BR>>learn about the different holidays around the world!<BR>><BR>>Other countries do not know of the Belgian holiday, Sinterklaas, so <BR>>of course for us, the next holiday, at least here in the US,
is <BR>>Christmas, or other holidays for other faiths, all sometime in <BR>>December....<BR>><BR>>So we didn't know that Sinterklaas wasn't over yet (smile)... I hope <BR>> your Belgian children really enjoy Sinterklaas!!<BR>><BR>>Somehow our US culture adopted Sinterklaas and called him Santa <BR>>Claus, and put him together with Christmas...so we must have <BR>>combined the two holidays into one. So you see, Belgium has had a <BR>>wonderful influence on our holidays here in the US...Thank you for <BR>>that!<BR>><BR>><BR>>>ps: Val, we had visitors in from Mons (Wallon) today, and I gave <BR>>>them your email. And showed the site with SW-lessons in French, <BR>>>they were very impressed ;) So I think they'll be in contact ;)<BR>><BR>>This
is wonderful news, Kathleen. Thank you for telling us!<BR>><BR>>Great to see how well you know the spelling rules!!<BR>><BR>>Your sign for Christmas (Kerstmis in Dutch?) is beautifully <BR>>written...In the attached I stacked the two signs together into one <BR>>sign...if it is a compound sign...not sure...I couldn't find it in <BR>>your SignPuddle yet...smile...<BR>><BR>><BR>
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