[stylist] question

Thu Mar 26 03:23:33 UTC 2009

The same would be true for foreign language so get it the ----- out of the 
schools and bring Latin back so they understand more than just the one 
language and so they can actually write coherent things.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:25 AM
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> Barbara, No one ever failed because they wanted to learn braille or sign 
> language.  I'm sure if a child expressed an interest in larning braille an 
> after school program could be found.  Or a parent could get the books from 
> the library.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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>> When you are grown up, sure.  But the grade schoolers don't, unless they 
>> want to get a failing grade.
>> Barbara
>>
>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:26 PM
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>>> And I don't choose to learn Spanish,French or Arabic.  Again, my choice. 
>>> The world has the ability to choose if they want to learn Braille or 
>>> sign language.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:37 PM
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>>>
>>>> Lol, I keep mine right next to my keyboard. I never know when I'm going 
>>>> to
>>>> need it.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:10 PM
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>>>>
>>>> And yet society would rather our kids learn Spanish or some other 
>>>> language
>>>> in school.  Now I know if you want to travel abroad you must learn to 
>>>> speak
>>>> another's language.  But this is America!  We speak English and those 
>>>> folks
>>>> who don't can learn it.  We blind folks can't learn to read print.  The 
>>>> deaf
>>>> can't learn to hear.  So why don't the children learn a Braille and 
>>>> sign
>>>> language instead.  Those are two "languages" that would help us all 
>>>> "get on
>>>> an even playing ground".
>>>> When will their history books tell them about how the handicapped were
>>>> opressed?  LOL.  I realy don't think anyone but the handicapped are 
>>>> opressed
>>>> in this country.
>>>> I'm stepping down off my soap box.  Oops!  It must have gotten wet 
>>>> because
>>>> it practically slid out from under me.  I guess that's what you get for
>>>> leaving it out in the rain.
>>>> Barbara
>>>>
>>>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of 
>>>> whom
>>>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:56 PM
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>>>>
>>>>> Lori:
>>>>>
>>>>> I love the words blind and deaf.  I abhor anything with impaired in 
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Although the definition of blind may say one who cannot see, and
>>>>> that's a negative description, we still have the opportunity to
>>>>> neutralize the word itself and have it convey something else entirely,
>>>>> into something that's cool.  Same with deaf.  We can take it and turn
>>>>> it around, and associate it with culture, pride, ASL, all sorts of
>>>>> great and positive things.
>>>>>
>>>>> But you can't neutralize and turn around a term like sight impaired.
>>>>> Tthat
>>>>> term does two very bad, bad, bad things.  First, it implies that sight
>>>>> is the ideal, that it's right, and what we SHOULD have, and that if we
>>>>> don't have it, we SHOULD want it.  This is society talking, "Sight is
>>>> better."
>>>>>
>>>>> Second, the term implies that we're broken or we're short of the
>>>>> ideal, or we've fallen from the grace of what society says is normal.
>>>>> This is very bad, bad, bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does NFB merely "prefer" the word blind?  It shouldn't.  it should
>>>>> embrace it absolutely.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
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