Deaf and mute? It will need getting used to. Rather than confusing these terms, the ideal situation will be to educate the society to use the words like blind and dumb only in their original sense. Dictionaries must remove the metaphorical meanings of these words and word blind should be used only for someone can't see and dumb only for someone who can't speak. There is nothing derogatory about these words unless we start making them so.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Arun Mehta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 12:39 PM Subject: [AI] mute, instead of dumb? > We've just had a discussion on whether use of the word blind was > appropriate, and I do not wish to reopen it. However, this sort of > discussion is far more needed in the case of the word dumb, which is > commonly used to mean stupid. > > We have a much more precise word to indicate inability to speak, which > is mute. I would urge we use that, instead of dumb. > > Thanks, > Arun > > On 11/15/06, Vishal M Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I happened to meat a Dumb and Def boy > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
