i can tell you the reason its coming out.
it is just as degrading to the blind community as a few others are to
different cultures.
They don't like being called those terms and neither should you.
The person you mentioned that slings this saying around has big
issues with blindness. You can really tell it in a interview done
with him about going blind.
So anyone that condones it or uses it is degrading those with disabilities.
You should educate instead of discriminate!
I am visually impaired or blind not a DAM BLINK!
At 11:31 AM 2/10/2011, you wrote:
I hadn't actually heard the term blink until Che martin first used
it, in fact I've never heard it used outside this community.
If some sighted people do use it, I wonder if it's more us specific?
This would also explain why muhammed hadn't heard it before either.
Btw, on the super powers issue, quite often it's not super powers so
much as a different way of doing things.
I've had a lot of comments about my musical memory, sinse I only
need to hear a tenor line two or three times in order to learn it,
and some people have been really amazed by that, however I find the
very idea of reading music alien.
Even though I understand what printed music looks like and
understand the mechanics, bars, names of notes, intervals ornaments
etc, I am not thinking any of those things whilst learning music,
---- I'm just synaesthesically perceiving (actually seeing and
feeling), the notes, and reproducing them.
To me, the idea of translating a set of symbols on paper into music
seems just as incredible as my ability to remember a complex tenor
part at only a couple of repetitions often seems to other people.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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