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Transcription: [00:41:01]
{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap"}
We use, one hand shapes for each letter. And, we deaf people have already developed many stories and signs using one letter for a word. It's hard to explain.

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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap"}
But maybe if we demonstrate it, a little bit of it. Let's start with a short one. You, come you. Where's the other one? C'mere.

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{SILENCE}
[[Background talking, chanting and drums]]

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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap"}
Well I'll tell you a short story. We have a word for it. The word is drag. You know drag racing as in drag racing car racing.

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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap"}
Ok this is the story. D -- R -- A -- G. Do you get the idea of the story? Those are the letters. Did you catch the story?

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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap"}
Do it again. There are the two cars. There's D -- the letter D. The two cars in position. Ready -- there's the R letter R. They're racing and thats the sign for racing and thats the letter A. And they take off - that's the letter G.

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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap"}
You know, each letter, we take each letter and act out the story thru the letters.

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Mine's better. F -- O -- R -- D. F - O - R - D!