Oh, and I can spot a hearing aid from like a mile away. Now that I work in telecom, I can tell if someone's HOH/Ddeaf just by how they write and whether or not their main line has a voicemail box.
I'm a former interpreter and now teach college Englsh to underprepared deaf students.
Absolutely no idea why I'm still here though. :|
I'm a hearie, and I'm here because my mom is HOH, and I'm getting ready to write a senior thesis on deaf culture. I've been doing a lot of research, and it seems like to me that being HOH is kind of like being biracial... you don't really know where you belong.
I've also, at the ripe age of 30, started to figure out that what I took for granted, being raised by a HOH parent makes me noticeably different from others. I used to wait tables at P.F. Changs, and the best tip I ever got in my LIFE was because there was someone who was in the party who was deaf. If you've ever eaten there, the server has to go through this whole dog and pony show with the sauces and whatnot. I looked right at him, didn't use ASL (don't know it because my mom doesn't... but that's a whole nother issue, isn't it?).... turns out he was paying the bill.
Oh, and I can spot a hearing aid from like a mile away. Now that I work in telecom, I can tell if someone's HOH/Ddeaf just by how they write and whether or not their main line has a voicemail box.
I am late-deafened, so my English is that of a hearing person, someone who learned English as their native language, auditorily. But it's interesting, when I'm on AD, there are many people who write in ASL style ("Deaf English") and I find myself switching to that sometimes. So sometimes I write funny on here and later I look back at it, and I realize that it is a combination of ASL and English. Go figure.[/B]
You must not have met some of the Deaf/HOH people I have. Many possess Master's level degrees or Ph.D.'s and write more grammatically correct and eloquent English than some hearies I know.
I am late-deafened, so my English is that of a hearing person, someone who learned English as their native language, auditorily. But it's interesting, when I'm on AD, there are many people who write in ASL style ("Deaf English") and I find myself switching to that sometimes. So sometimes I write funny on here and later I look back at it, and I realize that it is a combination of ASL and English. Go figure.
I think you can tell when a person's native language is ASL, but I don't think you can tell whether they are deaf or hearing.
I'm a hearie, and I'm here because my mom is HOH, and I'm getting ready to write a senior thesis on deaf culture. I've been doing a lot of research, and it seems like to me that being HOH is kind of like being biracial... you don't really know where you belong.
I've also, at the ripe age of 30, started to figure out that what I took for granted, being raised by a HOH parent makes me noticeably different from others. I used to wait tables at P.F. Changs, and the best tip I ever got in my LIFE was because there was someone who was in the party who was deaf. If you've ever eaten there, the server has to go through this whole dog and pony show with the sauces and whatnot. I looked right at him, didn't use ASL (don't know it because my mom doesn't... but that's a whole nother issue, isn't it?).... turns out he was paying the bill.
Oh, and I can spot a hearing aid from like a mile away. Now that I work in telecom, I can tell if someone's HOH/Ddeaf just by how they write and whether or not their main line has a voicemail box.[/QUOTE]
By how they write? That's very pompous of you. I think u owe us an apology for making a blanket statement like that about us, Deaf/HOH people.
Exactly. Could be a CODA. Or could simply be someone whose native language is not English. And, you must be careful to not place those judgements on informal writing examples. What I write on this board, I don't monitor for grammatical correctness in the same way that I do a professional paper.
Jillio, I'm assuming you mean your own grammatical correctness here on the board but I'm wondering if you pay attention (prolly not part of your job, per se) to the grammar structure of the students at your place of work?
Oh, and I can spot a hearing aid from like a mile away. Now that I work in telecom, I can tell if someone's HOH/Ddeaf just by how they write and whether or not their main line has a voicemail box.
Now that I work in telecom, I can tell if someone's HOH/Ddeaf just by how they write and whether or not their main line has a voicemail box.
Yeah, what you hearies here for????
To bug ya.