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In this case, where *absolute power is over ones' head, a refusal to support implies dissent as one assumes the penalty for (not)doing so is 'clear'. However, in the case where the law supports silence, where that same law assumes innocence before guilt... claiming one's fifth ammendment right may avoid the truth as evidence but certainly doesn't do much to establish "a shadow of a doubt"... in this case truly speaking without uttering specific sounds. Since we were given us such a wunnerful  (turn off the bubble machine) ponder in a choice of "one piece of music"... I offer this for your chewing pleasure... If you were forced to lose one of the three: sight, hearing, or ability to speak... which would it be? For the sake of discussion let us assume that one could speak clearly without hearing (no need to explain all of what truly is possible in this vein...I am quite aware... unless Dr.Bill has insight that no other may.) I choose to looze Hi, AnnaS speech. (Now we'll see who the true "lingua"philes are  ) PS. Not answering this question can only mean one thing. 
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"Well, I wasn't there so what do I know?"
There used to be a radio program in thirties with Baron Munchhausen telling wild tales, and to his questioning stooge administering the finale punch line, "Vas you dere, Sharley?"
So, no, I wasn't there. I'm glad I wasn't. I might have gotten the chop too.
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Great question, Musick. i'd definitely choose to lose the power of speech. in so many ways it's the only "sense" that can be replaced quite easily. we can speak volumes with our eyes alone (hi, C!), not to mention our actions. besides, i talk way too much anyhow; it'd be a blessing to those around me 
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Hear, Eye would have to agree with caradea in the first part (whilst strongly disagreeing with her in the second)
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Hmm, which of the two obvious senses would I choose to lose. Knowing sign language obviously eliminates the loss of sight as an option. But between losing speech and hearing, I think it might be too close to call. I'd probably lean towards losing speech and rely on my hands to do the talking.
And an aside about blindness and deafness that I see illustrated every single day. Helen Keller said "being blind may separate you from things... but being deaf separates you from people." Look around at how socialized many blind people are, and then check in on how the deaf are so isolated and oppressed that they have created what anthropologists call a completely different culture. It deserves some thought.
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I, long ago, decide that I would lose hearing, because I could still read, lip read, talk, and sign, and I would get rest from my brother. He talks far too much.
(I'm serious about the rest from my brother part)
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What? The conversation has drifted off into the loss of bodily functions? Where's the food? Where's the sex?
Does anybody want to know what a silent verbal is?
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Dear jimthedog: Get earplugs. And use them not only to tune out your brother, but to protect you from loud noise whenever it is even mildly unpleasant. I now wonder if I would have lost my hearing so severely if I had used them, even just when mowing the lawn.
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Maybe I will. There's a field on the next hill, and I can easily shout to someone in my yard from there, if I do it loud enough. I don't have to get as loud as he does when he's mad.
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When Helen Keller was asked which of her three senses she would choose to have she said hearing.
Finger spelling can be done in the palm of the hand as Annie Sullivan did for Miss Keller.
I have a 50% hearing loss and, believe me, I dread any threat to the hearing I have left. ... no music? ... not to hear my children's voices? ... the voices of friends? ... You can write stuff out, or type on a computer some computers even have "voices" ... I'm leaving now before this turns into a rant ...
OK, what are silent verbals?
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