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Yep, when I was a kid I had boils sometimes. They hurt. I had a staph infection, and it caused boils every month. They gave me lots of antibiotics. When I got one, my mom took me to the doctor, and the doctor cut them open to stop them from growing. When he cut them, they were very gross...

If they're wrong, post your own version and fix them. Don't complain that we're disrespecting your culture. You do not "own" ASL and I do not "own" English. I used that web site to teach myself many signs, and now I'm able to communicate with my family and deaf friends much better. ASL is...

Hello everyone, My wife and I are working on raising money to purchase media access equipment (captioning) for movie theatres in Des Moines, Iowa. We've raised about $6000 so far, and we still need to raise around $9000 more to purchase the first system. If you live near Des Moines, and...

I was just reading about this court case on another web site. Does anyone know of any recent updates? I guess the issue in question is the gray area between the ADA and the IDEA. It seems that the ADA requires a broader spectrum of accommodations in the public sphere than the IDEA does...

Simply stated: A phoneme is the smallest piece of sound that can be separately spoken in a word. A phoneme is similar to "a letter", but many letters have more than one phoneme. The letter "A" for example has four phonemes -- the 'A' like 'cake', the 'A' like 'cat', the 'A' like 'father'...

This seems very wrong to me. Regardless of who this guy was, or how he lived his life, he was a man and he impacted the lives of his friends and family. A funeral is for the living, not the deceased -- it helps people remember their loved one, and to begin healing. This pastor must be utterly...

"If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?"

I'm not an interpreter or ASL teacher, but I am an adjunct professor at a local college. I teach Computer Information Systems and Computer Science classes. I have a masters in CIS, and that's all they needed for me to be an instructor -- no teaching degree or anything (although I did have some...

That's FUNNY! :rofl:

It was probably intended as a compliment, but is was a callous one, because it was given without much thought to its implications. As a hearing person, that's something for me to learn from all these things... keep the value judgements to myself, unless there's no way to misunderstand it.

So the original poster said: "Why do we have a stock market?" People have explained stocks, which is good, but the question was: "Why do we have a stock market?" Let me try to explain. As others have said, stocks are created by companies so they can raise money. They are selling...

I was taught that these various signing methods exist in a continuum, with SEE at one extreme, PSE somewhere in the middle, and ASL at the other extreme. It's been my experience that deafies sign with a mixture -- even those deafies who've signed all their lives. So, you'll sometimes see an...

I'm a hearie... been signing for about a year. I can hold a conversation with a deaf person, but I'm pretty much signing PSE. I'm still at the stage where I'm learning something new with each conversation. A deaf friend said that it usually takes a hearing person about 2 years to become...

Well thank you! :ty:

I think it's really hard for a hearing person to learn sign very well. It's hard for a hearing person to make friends who are Deaf (at least as an adult... I suppose children don't have that problem). If you're hearing, and trying to learn sign, one Deaf friend is like gold -- rare and...

This is a great accomplishment. Best wishes to anyone who accomplishes something like that! Almost every day I'm amazed at what the human spirit can achieve if given access.

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I did see that there was an update on that URL saying from 2005 saying "our second experience was more positive." Is it possible that it just takes a while to get used to? It does seem like training the theatre people is important -- if they make it too difficult to use, it will be a major...

I don't know why there wouldn't be. Runway models and photo models don't need to speak orally very much. It seems like a perfectly acceptable profession for a deaf person to me. Although I do wonder why anyone would want to be a model in the first place. It doesn't seem like it would be very...

Somebody needs to make a web site that does this automatically with your DVD player. So like, your DVD player or DVR would automatically hook up with a big online database of caption tracks and then _everything_ could be captioned. Oh well, maybe some day speech recognition will get good...