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Siglish

The terms "Ameslan" and "Siglish" were coined in the early 1970s, both mentioned in an early published book, "Ameslan: an introduction to American Sign Language" by Louie J. Fant, Jr. in 1972. Basically, "Siglish", later known as Signed English, is a signed language in English grammatical order. Ameslan or ASL (American Sign Language) is a true language of its own.

At that time, there was a confusion between Siglish (later called "Signed English") and Ameslan. Louie attempted to clarify confusions and explained the difference. In my past essay, I described an equivalent of Signed English to coercing Chinese children to learn and write Chinese characters in English grammatical order, which would be ridiculous linguicism. By the way, Amseslan/ASL and Chinese have more in common in grammar than English.