MySL

[David McKee]

The acronym for Malaysian Sign Language used to be BIM (Bahasa  
Isyarat Malaysia) but the acronym conflicts with same acronym for a  
certain organization in Malaysia.  So they decided to use a new  
acronym - MySL

David

On 4/09/2007, at 11:25 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:

> The trouble with abbreviations derived from the spoken language of the
> country where the SL is used is that they are opaque outside of  
> that country
> or spoken language. BII, NGT, LSF... They have little or no  
> mnemonic value.
>
> I don't see that it's necessary to stick with purely initial three- 
> letter
> abbreviations just because three letters were enough to distinguish  
> the
> first few SLs that were scientifically studied: ASL, BSL (both from
> English-speaking countries), FSL, and OFSL (abbreviated in English  
> by the
> English-speaking linguists).
>
> What would be so bad about IndSL, IndonSL, IrSL, IsrSL, and so on?
>
> m a m
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