Happy Winter Solstice!
In the second year of my ASL Dictionary’s creation, I focused on the hand signs shown in class but missing from the textbooks. There are two ASL signs for WINTER. The first is the hand sign for COLD (minus the facial expression of freezing), and the second is the initialized hand sign for Cold with the letter W.
The character I chose to represent this cold season was the Snow Queen. Instead of being emotionless, cold-hearted, and distant, this ice queen is dressed in snowflakes and happily grins while her icy fingers show the ASL hand sign for WINTER.
W hands held apart facing each other are shaken, like freezing hands in the winter snow.
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