Thread: Would be being born blind and deaf be that bad?
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Unread 7 Oct 2005, 20:10   #21
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Re: Would be being born blind and deaf be that bad?
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Well, we generally form concepts by having similarities pointed out to us. But to someone blind/deaf, the similarities that are there for us just wouldnt be there for them (think about how you'd distinguish cats from dogs based on feel alone, or how you could convey that a kitten is a baby cat despite feeling completely different). If a blind/deaf community managed to evolve a language it would probably be based around tactile groupings and I suspect the concepts they had (if any) would be utterly distinct from those employed in languages used by the non-blind.
Yeah, in the same way different cultures developed different languages, and often place emphasis on different things. Deaf blind perople probably don't get irony. But I'm sure they're not crying into their porrige about that one.
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