Posts by Zippy Gonzales
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There are some real horror stories from the old days. I watched people recount stories of corporal punishment for signing, having to sit on their hands in class or stand in the corner, basically shutting down all input. The focus on lipreading at the expense of general learning confined many Deaf to a life of unskilled labour if they were lucky.
Things have certainly improved. Not great, but much better.
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Rachel and David McKee run a great course at Vic Uni. DEAF 101 opened my eyes to a world I didn't know about. And Book is an excellent sign name!
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I hope to be reincarnated as a bonobo.
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I think NZSL has a lot to offer stroke victims. Different areas of the brain are used to conceptualise and gesture comapared with language and speech.
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Perhaps a sign saying "NO PO MO" then.
That's just brilliant.
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Funny you mention Milan, Giovanni. From Languages of New Zealand (VUP):
For the NZSL community, the year 1880 is a landmark for two reasons. Firstly, in that year, hearing teachers of the Deaf at an international congress in Milan resolved to universally reject the use of sign languages which had been used previously in many educational institutions for the Deaf - in many cases by Deaf teachers. The first government school for the Deaf in New Zealand also opened in 1880, and in keeping with the 'modern' thinking crystallised in the Milan resolution which professed 'the incontestable superiority of speech over signs', signing was excluded from the classrooms of New Zealand schools for the Deaf from their founding in 1880 until 1979.
-Written by Rachel McKee and Graeme Kennedy
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Thanks for an excellent post, Emma. Deafness can lead to a rich and colourful inner narrative, and the cicadas are never annoying. I wrote some of my own deaf experience here.
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All this bee talk is damned interesting. I had erroneously assumed that NZ had some type of native bee, so thanks for the background, Lucy. That explains why NZ's indigenous flora is quite narrow. Airborne and honeysucker pollination only.
Cicadas don't bother deaf people.
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100 tabs? Can't wait for wetware eh?
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Just stay away from the Ayn Rand gym. They have a strict "philosophers will be escorted off the premises" policy.