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Thankfully that one has been put to rest. MENSA. That is an organization I don’t belong to. Now back to the throne of kings, fore, sigma, 1 and 2, love one foisted upon us. If there is anyone from Mensa reading this, please put us out of our misery,
Throne ... nope ... think British
 
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LOO KING FORE, after that, you got me!
 
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Loo King fore 1 2 Love by Sigma. Looking For One To Love, by Sigma? (I hope, otherwise I won’t sleep tonite 😀).
 
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Looking for someone to love
 
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Once bitten, twice shy.

Yesssssss!

WOW! Almost unbelievable. Why do I even try 😟?
 
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1- HAVE
2- SAFE
3- HAPPY
4- NEW
5- YEAR

In American Sign Language. There y’ go.

Well, only kinda...
It is a real challenge to interpret static pictures from a book to represent ASL. It is a dynamic language that incorporates space and movement to represent time and tense, and incorporates widely accepted rules of grammar as developed by usage over centuries.
So yes, the pics may represent the chosen saying, but my son (Deaf from birth, has always used ASL for communication) would have stated "Happy New Year, Safe Have".
Another challenge is dialect; ASL in the Southern US is different from the Northern US, and ASL in Canada has several different signs. And British Sign Language and Australia Sign Language are derived from the same root, but different from ASL.
Yet another issue for older Deaf people is the pollution of ASL by signed formats like Signed Exact English (SEE), which is not a language at all, but rather a series of codes (introduced by well-meaning but uneducated linguists in the '50s) to represent words in English order. The pictograph of 2-SAFE appears to be SEE.
Sorry to be pedantic, but having spent 25 years advocating for Deaf language rights, this is quite personal.
 
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Any old timey saying:




You don’t know shit from shinola
 
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Well, only kinda...
It is a real challenge to interpret static pictures from a book to represent ASL. It is a dynamic language that incorporates space and movement to represent time and tense, and incorporates widely accepted rules of grammar as developed by usage over centuries.
So yes, the pics may represent the chosen saying, but my son (Deaf from birth, has always used ASL for communication) would have stated "Happy New Year, Safe Have".
Another challenge is dialect; ASL in the Southern US is different from the Northern US, and ASL in Canada has several different signs. And British Sign Language and Australia Sign Language are derived from the same root, but different from ASL.
Yet another issue for older Deaf people is the pollution of ASL by signed formats like Signed Exact English (SEE), which is not a language at all, but rather a series of codes (introduced by well-meaning but uneducated linguists in the '50s) to represent words in English order. The pictograph of 2-SAFE appears to be SEE.
Sorry to be pedantic, but having spent 25 years advocating for Deaf language rights, this is quite personal.

It most certainly not my intention to offend anyone. I could scrub the puzzle if you wish.
 
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Don't do as I do, do as I say.

I sorta figured that might be an easy one. Stay tuned.😁
 
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Hopefully not a “gimmee l. Put your thinking caps on.


Strange how sometimes they come to you immediately, and sometimes you get stuck on doo-doo instead of do, do.