DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, July 3, 2014
-- a new deaf phrase for baseball and a challenge
A new deaf phrase for baseball is Silent Inning.
The Lincoln Saltdogs (Nebraska) pro baseball team
had a Silent Inning during the fifth inning of last
night's game. During that inning, everything is
silent, meaning no public announcements. This is to
create awareness of the deaf. It was the idea of
Charlie Myers, the team's president who is fluent
in ASL. Now - a challenge for him - to offer
contracts to deaf baseball players to play for the
Saltdogs!
-- tapping the shoulder of a hearing person is not assault
Deaf people know that when their shoulder is tapped by
hearing people, it is to get attention. But many hearing
people consider it an assault if a deaf person taps
on their shoulders. Anyway, a police officer in a
small British town, has been telling people that if
one deaf person taps on their shoulders, it is not assault.
A deaf person lives in this town and he always taps
on hearing shoulders.It doesn't bother some hearing
people, but it bothers others and it has led to near-fights!
-- a failed deaf product
Six years ago a Japanese company came up with a wake up
alarm for the deaf. It was not a flashing device or a
vibrating device but something else - a smoke alarm.
It would smell like a horseradish, an awful smell that
would wake up the deaf. This product failed. Maybe the
deaf people do not want to smell while sleeping. But
why was it invented in the first place? The developers
felt the deaf people can smell horseradish!
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