[sw-l] British Sign Language Flag in SignPuddle

[Charles Butler]

Sandy,

Quebecois Sign Language is also used in Canada (different sign language), so it's kind of hard to pick a single flag for ASL, but "American Sign Language" was created in the USA.

It would be interesting to find out which schools teach what language in Northern Ireland.  Do the Catholic parochial schools specialize in Irish Sign Language, and the Protestant parochial schools specialize in BSL?  With a National educational system in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, we'd have to ask which languages are taught where by those there.

Charles Butler


Sandy Fleming <sandy at FLEIMIN.DEMON.CO.UK> wrote:
Trevor,

I believe they use both BSL and ISL there according to whether they're
catholic or protestant, though due to politics it's not easy to make out
exactly what the truth is.

Anyway, why use the flag of the USA for ASL? It's the usual sign language in
Canada too, isn't it?

Sandy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Trevor Jenkins
> Sent: 08 September 2004 19:22
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: RE: [sw-l] British Sign Language Flag in SignPuddle
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Sandy Fleming wrote:
>
> > It should be the Union Jack since, unlike English, BSL is
> indigenous to the
> > whole of the UK.
>
> You sure about that? North Ireland (a constituent part of the UK) surely
> uses IRL.
>
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > > [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Valerie Sutton
> > > Sent: 07 September 2004 18:46
> > > To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [sw-l] British Sign Language Flag in SignPuddle
> > >
> > >
> > > SignWriting List
> > > September 7, 2004
> > >
> > > Sandy-
> > > At the bottom of SignPuddle pages, you can click on a tiny flag to
> > > change countries. Stephen used the tiny flag for England (or Great
> > > Britain). When you click on that flag, it will take you to the BSL
> > > page...Meanwhile, I was using the flag for UK on other web pages...We
> > > need to coordinate our web pages so we are using the same flag to
> > > represent BSL...Which flag do you choose? ...smile ...Val ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> Regards, Trevor
>
> <>< Re: deemed!
>
>
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