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Even when Italians are talking about the weather they sound like a fight is about to break out any minute.
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digitS'
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You'd appreciate that hand holding especially if you are Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan. Remember? That's how they spoke to each other.
I might go for that. I just don't use my hands to communicate
. DD was on television for several months. I noticed that she almost appeared that she was sitting on her hands. I may be like that too - blame the northern European.
I compensated for so many years when I was younger, and because I'm so unlively in communication, I missed the boat on learning sign language. DS said 20 years ago that if I didn't learn, I wouldn't be talking with anybody! But, who would I talk to?
There was this popular claim at one time that sign was the number 4 most common language in the US. Gallaudet University doesn't even buy that. Their low-ball is 500,000 but that might be including interpreters and members of households with deaf people. Ethnologue's linguists say there are only half that number but they would likely to be only counting deaf users.
Yes. It would be a culture unto itself. I doubt if I'd be happy there but DS makes a point. Deafness results in isolation even when (or, especially when) with others. Blindness would allow communication but I don't know how anyone would maintain much independence.
Steve
I might go for that. I just don't use my hands to communicate
. DD was on television for several months. I noticed that she almost appeared that she was sitting on her hands. I may be like that too - blame the northern European.I compensated for so many years when I was younger, and because I'm so unlively in communication, I missed the boat on learning sign language. DS said 20 years ago that if I didn't learn, I wouldn't be talking with anybody! But, who would I talk to?
There was this popular claim at one time that sign was the number 4 most common language in the US. Gallaudet University doesn't even buy that. Their low-ball is 500,000 but that might be including interpreters and members of households with deaf people. Ethnologue's linguists say there are only half that number but they would likely to be only counting deaf users.
Yes. It would be a culture unto itself. I doubt if I'd be happy there but DS makes a point. Deafness results in isolation even when (or, especially when) with others. Blindness would allow communication but I don't know how anyone would maintain much independence.
Steve
so lucky
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My son preaches in a church for the deaf, and DIL signs (interprets). The whole family signs. No one is deaf in the family, though.
It's hard to sign if you have arthritis in your fingers.
It's hard to sign if you have arthritis in your fingers.
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digitS'
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Hurricane force winds outside this morning! Oh ... 20°, calm, with freezing fog ..?
I'm happy with that instead of what it sounds like, to me. Maybe, I need a little catnap ... right after I finish this cup of oolong.
Steve
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Hurricane force winds outside this morning! Oh ... 20°, calm, with freezing fog ..?
I'm happy with that instead of what it sounds like, to me. Maybe, I need a little catnap ... right after I finish this cup of oolong.
Steve, is your oolong spiked with something? I can't seem to make out your post. Your first line sounds a little bit like "Rained so hard the night I left, the weather it was dry. Sun so hot I froze to death, Susannah don't you cry". Is that the message you intended? Sorry if I'm all out of whack here.
canesisters
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The little band in his ears were playing again, I bet.
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digitS'
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I did doze off after breakfast, in the morning darkness.
Here's what I dreamt: I was back in the '65 diesel Mercedes. Someone else was driving, for some reason. She managed to turn off the engine by hitting the starter switch!
I got out and fell asleep in a recliner on the front lawn. I awakened to a parade of old pickups loaded with junk! The lawn around me was half covered with odds and ends and a yard sale had already started
!
Then, I really woke up!
Steve
Here's what I dreamt
: I was back in the '65 diesel Mercedes. Someone else was driving, for some reason. She managed to turn off the engine by hitting the starter switch!I got out and fell asleep in a recliner on the front lawn. I awakened to a parade of old pickups loaded with junk! The lawn around me was half covered with odds and ends and a yard sale had already started
Then, I really woke up!
Steve
