MySL

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

David,

I spoke to a sign linguist in Malaysia a few weeks ago and she said
that its called BIM?

Shane

On 04/09/07, David McKee <david.mckee at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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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