Sign for Olympics?

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hey all,
just wondering if there is a sign for "Olympics"??
Thanks,
*EQL*
 
Let me upload a YouTube sign of me signing the Olympics sign.

Give me about 5 minutes.

Here's the YT video. Hope this helps.

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MoniDew said:
*timidly* Isn't it the 5 interlinking rings?
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This is why I mentioned this is the Canadian sign of the Olympics.

Olympics is signed differently- localized and lexicalized.

Some countries have their signs and some fingerspell. I am quite curious about this and will google up the signs.
 
Mrs Bucket said:
This is why I mentioned this is the Canadian sign of the Olympics.

Olympics is signed differently- localized and lexicalized.

Some countries have their signs and some fingerspell. I am quite curious about this and will google up the signs.
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Yep.

In my part of town, it's similar to yours, but it's repeated three times with the links being more rounded out...almost like the F-handshape.
 
At 0:37-0:41 you can see the same signs for Olympics like I signed.

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This great vlog talks about a Deaf student carrying the Olympic torch! Kudos to the Deaf Community!! :applause:

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souggy said:
Yep.

In my part of town, it's similar to yours, but it's repeated three times with the links being more rounded out...almost like the F-handshape.
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Fascinating! This why I have told hubby I will not travel overseas until I finish travelling all over my own country and see all of Canada's signs. It is very beautiful.
 
Mrs Bucket said:
Fascinating! This why I have told hubby I will not travel overseas until I finish travelling all over my own country and see all of Canada's signs. It is very beautiful.
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The hotdog signs are going to be a pain in the ass to learn. I have seen a lot of different regional varieties for that. Myself? I use the localized sign they have in Winnipeg. A lot of people get confused because I never really stuck with one regional dialect... happens when your family travels a lot. :P
 
LOL! Hubby and I learned a lot about the hot dog sign, interesting you bring it up!

When we first met, he signed hot dog the way we sign gossip.

So imagine the communication between us each time I signed gossip and he would think we were having hotdogs for supper! When he signed he wanted hotdogs for supper, I was confused he signed gossip!

His localised signs still appear here and there; just lucky to have lived in Ohio and picked up the signs enough to know what he meant.
 
Can someone describe the sign more thoroughly? I know it's the five links, but is it the F handshape, 8 handshape? Signing the 5 links seems like it would take forever so I'm wondering if there's a shortcut version. :ty:
 
CJB said:
Can someone describe the sign more thoroughly? I know it's the five links, but is it the F handshape, 8 handshape? Signing the 5 links seems like it would take forever so I'm wondering if there's a shortcut version. :ty:
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The one Mrs. Buckets used is found in the Canadian ASL dictionary; it might also be in a few American ones as well since I recongize the same signs used by our friends to the south. If you know your handshapes, there is about 4 or 5 different handshapes for the "F" sign alone. She uses the FLAT-F handshape. Basically what she did in the video was have two FLAT-F handshapes meet each others and twist them twice while mouthing "OLYMPIC."
 
Mrs Bucket said:
His localised signs still appear here and there; just lucky to have lived in Ohio and picked up the signs enough to know what he meant.
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Oi....

I am still struggling with adapting to the Pacific signs. At least on the Prairies, even though everyone has slight differences... people still know what you meant.
 
Mrs. Bucket, I have seen, more often, I think, a sign for the Olympics as a little more subtle one than the one you presented and that is of a "chain" sign.

Nevertheless, they're both beautiful.
 
Our sign now as far as I know for Olympics is rings connecting, bit like yours but they connect. Hope you know what I mean
 
souggy said:
The one Mrs. Buckets used is found in the Canadian ASL dictionary; it might also be in a few American ones as well since I recongize the same signs used by our friends to the south. If you know your handshapes, there is about 4 or 5 different handshapes for the "F" sign alone. She uses the FLAT-F handshape. Basically what she did in the video was have two FLAT-F handshapes meet each others and twist them twice while mouthing "OLYMPIC."
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:ty: souggy. That makes perfect sense to me. :)
 
I've seen the rounded 9 hand used in a forward/backward twist. the motion is repeated a couple of times to demonstrate the linking rings.
 
I've used the 8-hand "rings", connecting three times (which actually makes six connecting "rings"). Too hard to make five connecting rings. :lol:
 
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