DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, December 5, 2013
-- The Japanese deaf have same complaints as we have
Captioned TV programs in Japan are growing slowly
every year. The Japanese deaf people have the same
complaints that we have - that these captions block
faces, scores, graphics, etc. We have complained since
1980 and this problem is not going away!
-- a dishonest hearing aid dealer
A hearing aid dealer told a deaf person that the new
hearing aid would cost $745 but is fully refundable if
there is no satisfaction. But the salesman rushed the
deaf person into signing the contract without allowing
her to read it carefully. The actual cost was $6.700,
and not $745 as promised. And the new hearing aid was
lousy. When the deaf person complained, the dealer
still would not refund the money. It took the efforts
of the Better Business Bureau, the California Department
of Consumer Affairs and a local TV investigative reporter
to force the dealer to give a refund in full amount.
The state is now working on shutting down that dealership.
-- deaf person mystery with the world's most famous movie
The Wizard of Oz, produced in 1939, is a movie classic,
just about one of the world's most famous movies. Did
a deaf person work behind the scenes? Toto, the dog in
the movie, was trained by someone, who had problems
understanding the tones. Was he deaf or was he tone-deaf
(cannot hear in the higher frequencies)? No one knows, but
he messed up the scene that the dog was to "follow" the
dancing group. As a result, this messed-up scene was cut
from the filming!
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