Hi Dark, Well, I can't say about the U.K. but here in the U.S. I've heard a few sighted people sling the term blink around a few times. I believe the first time I heard it I was in Junior High and a sighted person used it, and in a rather insulting way. So it is not exactly a fun, harmless, nickname guys like Che just made up one day for the fun of it. It has been around a while.
In fact, as mentioned earlier I think the most probable origen for this term is that when people have troubles seeing things they often blink trying to clear their eyes, or they squint there eyes trying to see things better. Naturally, someone would associate this with visual problems, and associate this with blindness or near blindness. Of course, there are dumb people, well, uneducated people who think completely the opposite is true. I can't tell you how many times people have come up to me and asked me, "do blind people blink?" Of course, we do. That is an involintary behavior used to keep the eyes clean, and really has nothing to do with sight. However, my point is that sighted people do have this weird hang up with blinking and blindness that is typical ignorance about blindness that can swing either way. cheers! On 2/10/11, dark <[email protected]> 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. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
