names of signed languages
Angus B. Grieve-Smith
grvsmth at UNM.EDU
Thu Feb 11 19:01:19 UTC 1999
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
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