DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, October 21, 2014
-- Iceland removes an insulting deaf word
To keep up with the times, Iceland has changed some
words in its law books. For many years, in the
law book, the word deaf-mute was used. Not any
more - deaf people are now described as hearing
impaired. Maybe Iceland should have changed to
a better word for us, but at least it is no
longer deaf-mute!
-- recognizing deaf big contributions to baseball
The World Series begins today. May the best team
win. And we should recognize the big contributions
of our past deaf major leaguers. Dummy Hoy invented
three signals - out, safe, ball. Dummy Taylor invented
coaches' signals and the catchers' signals. We see coaches
use hand signals for hitters and baserunners. And
when the catchers flash these hidden finger signals,
one finger, two fingers, three fingers and four
fingers, the pitchers know what to throw.
-- a very cold Sinclair response to a non-captioning complaint
The Sinclair Broadcast Group sent a letter to
DeafDigest editor, in response to the posting at
http://deafdigest.com/mid-week-news/20140818/
It was Sinclair that carried the non-captioned
ABC football game broadcast for airing in the central
Pennsylvania areas. The tone of the brief letter was
extremely C-O-L-D. To view the letter, go to:
http://deafdigest.com/cold-response-from-sinclair-on-noncaptioned-for-deaf-football-game/
Not even a warm "thank you" response! And it is almost
November; the football game took part in August, two
months ago. A turtle-like response to a non-captioning
complaint!
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