Brandon adds: Anyone remember the Saturn car company commerical several years ago where a woman faked her deafness in a national ad campaign until Saturn found out she was really hearing? Funny thing, in the commercial, she fingerspells S-A-T-E-R-N. Not very deaf if she can't even spell correctly in sign language.

Thanks again for another of your interesting insights, Brandon -- again, you've brought up something that's got my curiosity going. I know quite a few fluent, articulate non-deaf people who can't spell worth a darn in their "native" languages. Are you saying there's no such thing as a Deaf person who fingerspells poorly?