respected all, specially george sir and amarjeet sir,
extreme thanks for adding up such a valuable informations.
George sir, though you might have not written the same for any
particular indivisual, but I surely got a lesson from it.
Kindly keep guiding like this!
Amarjeet sir,
Though I strappingly believe that whatever you have pointed out is
correct, but somehow I don't concur to your statement that "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."
It may be right grammatically as probably I won't be the right person
to pass any verified conclusion, but if it is, then there would be a
lot of things we will have to correct as while we say, "India has won
this match", physically India is a non-living entity therefore it's
not possible for it to play even.
Further, though don't know any appropriate name in English, but you
will find many names of old schools of India as "andh vidyalaya
ajmer", "andh vidyalaya jaipur", etc etc.
Now if you translate the same it would be "blind school". right?
Yes I know that translation should not be made on word-to-word basis,
but sometimes it may require as I mentioned above.
However, I profoundly respect your words, and hope you are right,
and this may be some sort of problem with my understanding.
Regards,
Prateek agarwal.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Amarjit Powar" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:47:22 -0700
Subject: Re: [AI] What we call ourself!
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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