DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 20, 2015
-- the mysterious Deaf Village
A Deaf Village averages 14 deaf births per 1,000 people,
higher than USA's 2 or 3 deaf births per 1,000 people.
Deafness in the village has spanned 7 generations.
Why so many deaf people? Village lore said that two
powerful leaders fought each other and then cursed
their families to be deaf for generations. Everyone
in the village uses sign language. It is home made,
different from the national sign language. The location
of the village is isolated and few have traveled
outside. Name of the village? Bengkala, which is in
Bali, in the northern part of Indonesia. For a picture
of group of natives signing "I Love You" - not the
same as our ILY sign:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-village-in-indonesia/
-- FCC says captions cannot block the football scores
FCC has a rule that captions cannot block the screen.
The football score and scoreboard information must be
clear and easy to read. So why do captions often
block the scores? A broadcast engineer said there are
so many reasons why captions go bad - even though
everyone wants to follow the FCC strict rules.
Wrong code, wrong programming, wrong timing,
and many other wrong things. We hate it. TV
engineers hate it. FCC hates it - yet captions
often go bad.
-- another comedian making fun of the deaf
From time to time we read of comedians making
fun of the deaf. The latest comedian is
Mary Lynn Rajskub. She spoke a "deaf accent"
to make fun of a chef that spoke with a
funny accent. This issue was brought up by
an angry write for a web site.
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