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#3066 - 09/08/00 06:06 AM Re: Attitude to Expletives
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11579 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	In fact, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., had an extraordinarily large deaf community several hundred years ago How did this come to be, please?
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#3067 - 09/08/00 09:11 AM Re: Attitude to Expletives
Brandon enthusiast Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 218 Loc: Mountain West, USA	Martha's Vineyard deaf population...How did this come to be, please? Extracted from http://marthasvineyard.com/html/penn/history.htm "As a result, intermarriage among Chilmarkers brought out a genetic tendency for deafness. At one time more than one-quarter of Chilmark's residents were deaf and could not speak. Old time Vineyarders remember people signing in Chilmark rather than speaking, a difference, not a disability." There are also records of hearing people on the island using sign language to communicate with other hearing people, even when no deaf were present. You can also check out the book "Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard" by Nora Ellen Groce. Harvard University Press.
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#3068 - 09/13/00 05:24 AM Re: Attitude to Expletives
Bridget addict Registered: 06/27/00 Posts: 444 Loc: Sydney Australia	Also try 'Seeing Voices' by Oliver Sacks. This talks about the deaf and how they communicate more generally than just Martha's Vineyard, but is absolutely fascinating. (Mind you, I love Oliver Sacks because he starts from the premise of difference rather than disability.) As for citing sign language, Brandon, keep it up!
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#3069 - 01/16/01 03:52 AM Re: Attitude to Expletives
jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981	I'll dig this thread out of the mists of time in case anyone wants to look at it in relation to the "words which inflict excrucuating pain" thread. I would have just posted a link but everytime I go past the first page it transmogrifies into another thread. Maybe moving it up the pile will sort out the links. It does, of course digress, like all other threads!!!
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#3070 - 01/16/01 08:37 AM Re: Attitude to Expletives
Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773	Thank you for bringing this thread up, jmh. Brandon, I have a question for you. Has anyone tried to use ASL to communicate with autistic people? My son is a high functioning autistic, but struggles so with verbal language processing that I have wondered whether he could better handle language by using his visual learning skills.
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#3071 - 01/16/01 11:22 AM Re: ASL in the Islands
wow Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/25/00 Posts: 3439 Loc: New England, USA	In Hawaii there is an ASL presence and also Gaulladet College. Dearfness and hearing loss is rampant among Native Hawaiians so, through the help of Senator Inouye, Gallaudet has a school in Honolulu. You can start with the basics and go all the way to final certification as a teacher or interpreter of ASL. If you want to learn ASL might as well learn it in Hawaii!!! wow
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#3072 - 01/16/01 05:43 PM Behaviour of links to other threads
Marty enthusiast Registered: 09/20/00 Posts: 347 Loc: Melbourne, Australia	...I would have just posted a link but everytime I go past the first page it transmogrifies into another thread. Maybe moving it up the pile will sort out the links. I don't think so, Jo. I find that all cross-thread links behave that way. They're OK when I view them in threaded mode, and the first page is OK in flat mode, but if I click another page number or Show All in flat mode, I go to a completely different thread as you found. This applies whether the link has been referred to with showflat.pl or showthreaded.pl in the url. Can someone with a better understanding of HTML and browser behaviour provide an explanation and/or solution?
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#3073 - 01/16/01 09:34 PM Re: Expletives/threads
wow Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/25/00 Posts: 3439 Loc: New England, USA	Can someone with a better understanding of HTML and browser behaviour provide an explanation Whatever you do, you're screwed........ she said in an effort to knit together two aspects of current thread. wow
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#3074 - 01/16/01 10:24 PM Re: Expletives/threads
Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/13/00 Posts: 3146 Loc: Northamptonshire, England	Had a quick look at the HTML - it appears that all behaviour is determined by the server, which is what I would expect. It's a bug, but think of it as a feature ... Microsoft always does. _________________________ The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#3075 - 01/18/01 04:12 AM Re: Behaviour of links to other threads
jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981	>I find that all cross-thread links behave that way. They're OK when I view them in threaded mode, and the first page is OK in flat mode, but if I click another page number or Show All in flat mode, I go to a completely different thread as you found. This applies whether the link has been referred to with showflat.pl or showthreaded.pl in the url. It may be my computer. It seems to be fine on the threads that are on the first couple of pages in each section, after that, they all go loopy. If I bring a thread to the front it sorts itself out (for me, anyway). Are you saying that you still cannot view this thread without it tangling up?
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