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<div>I too am atypical. I have dyslexia yet love to read --- especially difficult philosophical and theological texts and high-quality literature. But this differentiates me from many of my associates as much as your own situation distinquish you from other D/deaf people. We all love to read and use text but others don't (or can't be bothered).</div>
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<div>Our post Post-Modern society could well see a total decline in textuality; we've already seen the reduction of much intelligent discourse in politics, etc as Postman suggested.Pessemistic I know but I fear this result is the conclusion. How this will affect D/deaf people with their general literacy skills and their specific need of sign language notations remains to be seen. I am not hopeful.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kimberley Shaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skifoot@gmail.com" target="_blank">skifoot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hello Trevor:<br> you have valid points ... but maybe I wasn't 100 percent clear<br>about my own point of view.<br>
My Deaf friends and I may be unusually biased in favor of the<br>written word. One of these friends is a published poet, and the other<br>one is an absolute bookworm. I am myself a librarian, and as a born<br>hard-of-hearing person, have always found newspapers and books to be<br>
much more reliable ways to be informed than the frustrations of not<br>quite getting all the info from TV and radio. So, maybe we're all<br>three of us a little immune to 21st-century Fox-style celebrity<br>culture! Except of course for when Marlee Matlin's on a certain dance<br>
show and we're all blogging about it and gathering around the computer<br>to watch the after-broadcast version of her episodes...<br> In talking about being text-centered, I was actually thinking more<br>in terms of languages (like some Native ones) which have never been<br>
written down, versus European and Asian languages which have been<br>written down for a very long time.<br> So, I still wonder about my friends' contradictory responses.<br>Best,<br>Kim from Boston<br>
<div><br><br><br>On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Trevor Jenkins <<a href="mailto:bslwannabe@gmail.com" target="_blank">bslwannabe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Kim,<br>><br>> I'm not convinved that we do live in what your called a "text centric highly<br>
> literate world". Various pundits (Neil Postman "Amusing Ourselves to Death"<br>> (1985) for exampe) have long argued that the late 20th and early 21st<br></div>> century are an unliterate society and meaningful debate has ceased....<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards, Trevor.<br><br><>< Re: deemed!<br>