MySL

[Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa]

Dear David,

I have spoken to HO Koon-Wei who is a deaf sign linguist in Malaysia.

She said that people in Malaysia use both acronyms - BIM or MySL. When
speaking with people outside Malaysia, they try and use MySL (making
it easier for you, maybe?) but in Malaysia, the Deaf community would
use either BIM or MySL - both the same one language.

I guess its the same with SVK - the Finns tells us that their language
is called FinSL but they never use that term in Finland - only for the
outsiders and many deafies outside Finland may find it disrespectful
by calling it FinSL instead of SVK. Another example is TID (Turkish
Sign Language) - I havent seen people saying TSL?

Shane

On 05/09/07, Hope Hurlbut <hope_hurlbut at sil.org> wrote:
> Dear David and Shane,
> I live in Malaysia, and had not heard of the change!  Maybe it is has not
> reached the Borneo side of the Malaysia yet.
> Hope
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David McKee" <david.mckee at vuw.ac.nz>
> To: "A list for linguists interested in signed languages"
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLLING-L] MySL
>
>
> > Hi Shane,
> >
> > I was in Malaysia for a MySL seminar as a guest speaker at the  invitation
> > from Malaysia Federation of the Deaf two weeks ago.  The  change happens
> > recently and maybe your sign linguist isn't aware of  this change - yet.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/09/2007, at 9:27 AM, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:
> >
> >> David,
> >>
> >> I spoke to a sign linguist in Malaysia a few weeks ago and she said
> >> that its called BIM?
> >>
> >> Shane
> >>
> >>
> >
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