On 7/27/06, Anthony Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If there were a "blind culture". There isn't. I wouldn't bet on that; I don't know of one per se, but there's a deaf culture and there are some issues around cochlear implants. Here's an example article about the issue: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/cont28.shtml
The difference being that the blind don't have there own separate language that some 'sighted' people don't understand. Although it shares a written language, American Sign uses a completely different mechanism for speaking, which is at the root of 'deaf culture'. (Please forgive the single quotes, I didn't know what should and shouldn't be quoted.) -- Craig Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
