Hi George,
Well done for clarifying. To further add to your clarification, the
singular and plural form of blind people continues to remain as blind and
not blinds. Blinds are shutters that you have across windows.
Further, grammartically speaking, there is nothing like the term blind
schools or blind institutions, as the schools or institutions are not blind,
rather they are schools or institutes for the blind. For instance, it's
Hadley School for the blind and not Hadley Blind School.
I hope this small grammartical clarification helps.
Amarjit
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Abraham" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:00 AM
Subject: [AI] What we call ourself!
Hi All,
In many places I have heard people refer to persons without sight as "A
Blind". Collectively such people are often called "Blinds".
Are people who cannot see a separate species like Tiger, Man, Blind, Lion,
Donkey and so on?
This is my personal view as a communicator that people without sight must
be referred to as Blind person or as blind people and not as a blind.
Please note that this mail is not a personal attack on any individual. I
thought I would take the liberty of pointing out this commonly made error.
With best regards,
George
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