Pankkake to No Stupid Questions • 4 days agoDo rhymes make sense to deaf people?message-square43arrow-up1143arrow-down14file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•2 days agoDo you have a link to a more reputable site? Gate communications is an American thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 day agoYou’ve got multiple sources now. It’s good to question things, but you might want to start by questioning the things that you’ve previously learned when encountering new information.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•1 day agoHow come you can say someone’s partially deaf when deafness already covers people who can partially hear? Isn’t that redundant?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•18 hours agoYes, it is redundant. The things people can say are not always completely medically accurate.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•edit-22 days agoJust look it up. It’s like being blind: a lot of blind people can still see but not well. Or using a wheelchair, a lot of people in wheelchairs can still stand short periods or walk short distances, but have a very short limit. ETC Society oversimplifies these things to be binary, but in reality they are a spectrum.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 days agodeafness, partial or total inability to hear. (Britannica)
Do you have a link to a more reputable site? Gate communications is an American thing.
You’ve got multiple sources now. It’s good to question things, but you might want to start by questioning the things that you’ve previously learned when encountering new information.
How come you can say someone’s partially deaf when deafness already covers people who can partially hear? Isn’t that redundant?
Yes, it is redundant. The things people can say are not always completely medically accurate.
Just look it up.
It’s like being blind: a lot of blind people can still see but not well.
Or using a wheelchair, a lot of people in wheelchairs can still stand short periods or walk short distances, but have a very short limit.
ETC
Society oversimplifies these things to be binary, but in reality they are a spectrum.
deafness, partial or total inability to hear. (Britannica)