names of signed languages

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Don G wrote:

> I don't think the problem lies in when we are face-to-face, signing
> about the countries signs.  In these situations, you are right, we can
> use the sign for the country and add the sign SIGN(-LANGUAGE).  It is in
> those situations when we are talking about these languages IN PRINT that
> I think we all have a real major potential (already realized?) for
> confusion.

        I was talking about borrowing the signs we use for our print
communications, which we can do with transcriptions that use the Roman
alphabet.  If we do it fine face-to-face, why can't we do it on an email
list?


                                -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
                                Linguistics Department
                                The University of New Mexico
                                grvsmth at unm.edu