DeafDigest - 19 November 2020

-- lies told by drive-in employee An employee at a fast food drive-in refused to serve a deaf customer, saying he had to order through the voice kiosk. He posted this incident on the facebook, and the company apologized to him. The employee said he was too busy to read the order written on a piece of paper. Too busy to read the order which read as cheeseburger with fries and coke! The employee said the deaf driver was blocking traffic behind him. Actually it was just one car behind the deaf driver!   -- Twitter finally realizing they discriminate against deaf Twitter has come up with disappearing tweets, voice-only chats, voice-only tweets. After realizing how discriminatory their innovations have become, they're putting a temporary stop, trying to find ways to satisfy the deaf.   -- a confusing story A newspaper story, in part, said: Recent Deaf and is fluent in American Sign Language It is puzzling and confusing. People who became recently deaf normally struggle with the learning of signs for quite some time. Some eventually become fluent; some struggle with it for life. And the word - recent - is also vague. Recent as if it happened few days ago, or last year or few years ago?   Deaf jobs - latest update http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ 11/15/20 Blue and Gold editions & sub options at: http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/

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