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  1. flameburns623

    I'm gonna wish i had succeeded in learning asl- getting dentures monday

    Natural teeth are very bad. I am having 16 teeth extracted and getting immediate dentures. Learning to talk with dentures is supposed to be an adventure in itself. Most people start out sounding like something betweeen Sylvester the Cat ("Thuffering Thucotash!"), and Tweety Bird ("Thot I taw a...
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    Any hoh/deaf freemasons here?

    Freemasonry is a fraternity with a 300 year-old public history. It purportedly had roots in stonemasons' guilds (professional craftsmen's associations) of the Middle Ages. Stonemasons began accepting honorary members perhaps a century prior to the public formation of a United Grand Lodge, and...
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    Any Other Deaf/HoH US Military Veterans Here?

    Just thinking I can't be the only one.
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    Anyone going to the Deaf Springfest near St. Louis this weekend?

    Or how about the Deaf Awareness Weekend at the Renaissance Faire, May 30 & 31? See ya there! I'll be the ugly one with the cane. The one who's only just learning to sign! LoL!
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    Do you think Deaf might drive BETTER than Hearing?

    I'm sure it's come up before, but: No messing with the radio or CD player. No talking while driving--hey, Bub, keep BOTH hands on the wheel, and BOTH eyes on the road! If Defies follow the other prudential advice for drivers--don't try to eat while driving, make certain you're rested...
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    Attended first ASL Class. Here are my strategies

    Wife, a friend of hers, and I all attended ASL. The text is A Basic Course In ASL, which happens to have a study guide available. I ordered that for the extra exercises and material which can augment the textbook. I had already bought a two-box set of flash cards and I am using these to...
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    Do Southron Deaf sign with a drawl?

    Do Yanks do ASL with a Nawth'un twang? Foolishness and humor aside (no offense intended to Southerners, Northerners, nor users of ASL): I hear oblique references to 'regional differences' in ASL. Can someone endeavor to describe to us what some of those 'regional differences' look like?
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    Happy Friday! Any weekend plans?

    I'm experimenting with straw bale gardening this year, and my bales have "cooked' (composted) sufficiently so Saturday will be planting day. I may go to the K of C Hall Saturday night for a drink. What are YOUR plans?
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    Howdy from Greater St. Louis MO/Metro-East Illinois

    Hello! HoH WM, 55 y/o, in the Riverbend/Madison County area of Greater Metro-Illinois St. Louis. Wife and I are soon to take up ASL. Married grandfather of two (boy, 6; girl, 2). US Army veteran, college graduate (BA in Sociology). Various interests: reading, swimming, gardening, poetry...
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