[sw-l] British Sign Language Flag in SignPuddle

[Stuart Thiessen]

And in the Philipines and to some extent in some other countries I
believe. This is where sign languages don't always follow country lines.

The opposite quandry, I suppose, is where you have multiple sign
languages in a country such as Spain, India, and others.  Even Canada
fits in both categories where it uses ASL and LSQ.

The exceptions certainly make life interesting. I believe Valerie went
with the flag idea so that we wouldn't have a continuation of the
acronym debate ... such as ... Is BSL British Sign Language or Brazilian
Sign Language?  Or should we use UKSL ... or LSB for Brazil ... or
..........Should Argentine Sign Language be ASL or LSA or LAS .....

By using the flags, we might have some idea of its affiliation without
getting into the acronym thing.  But there are still these challenges.
Ah, well!

What's life without some controversy to keep things lively, eh? ;-)

Stuart

Sandy Fleming wrote:

>Trevor,
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>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.
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>Anyway, why use the flag of the USA for ASL? It's the usual sign language in
>Canada too, isn't it?
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>Sandy
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>>-----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
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>>On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Sandy Fleming <sandy at FLEIMIN.DEMON.CO.UK> wrote:
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>>>It should be the Union Jack since, unlike English, BSL is
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>>>whole of the UK.
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>>You sure about that? North Ireland (a constituent part of the UK) surely
>>uses IRL.
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>>>Sandy
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>>>[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of
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>>Valerie Sutton
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>>>>Sent: 07 September 2004 18:46
>>>>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>>>Subject: Re: [sw-l] British Sign Language Flag in SignPuddle
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>>>>SignWriting List
>>>>September 7, 2004
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>>>>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 ;-)
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>>Regards, Trevor
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