What matters deafness of the ears, when the mind hears?

Here’s one inspiring Reader’s Digest-styled feel-good story of a deaf writer. As we grammar-deficient Singaporeans would say, I also want!

(Credit to Gerard for this post.)

I had long dreamed of writing a novel, but like others kept putting it off. As I began to lose more and more of my hearing, I thought that writing a novel would be the perfect hobby for me, as anyone can write regardless of whether they can hear. I was also determined to prove that my deafness would not hold me back.

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“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears?  The only deafness, the real deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the intellect.”

The title of this site is taken from Victor Hugo’s quote.  The following essay is an enlightening look at why Hugo wrote that and the historical context.

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I thought this tibit of information worthy of a post itself. Thanks, Banjo!

(See original article here.) 

Oh yeah, there are at least a couple thousand titles out there. Paramount seem to caption all of the special features and the main presentation. However, when MTV release their series (Jackass, Beavis and Butthead, Aeon Flux, etc)… they aren’t captioned at all. I think they have a different team handling these MTV series. But overall, Paramount and DreamWorks are pretty much the champs when it come to captioning the special features. Universal has been doing a lot of it lately with their new DVDs.

I personally find this one hilarious! 

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The power and potential of the Internet seems limitless - video blogs are now a reality. The importance of this is staggering, because sign language is a purely visual, animated language.

And the only way to do justice to it is what they called in the old days "moving pictures". Impractical and an  overwhelmingly technical challenge in the past, very much possible and breezier now.

One website where you can see everything, deaf jokes, comics, and such and I find that entertaining! So, I contacted Grant and told him that we could do it together and set it up. It is now set up at www.deafjoke.tv The website is all set and ready to go. There are some videos there already! We are not focusing on videos only, but others such as comic strips, Asl poetry or anything you want to share with us at the website. It think it would be nice to have a website that is very visual!

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I don’t really watch much YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and the likes (much too busy these days), but this is great news still.

Go Google go! :) 

Although many of us are responsible for making this possible, it’s particularly meaningful to me because I’m not only an engineer fortunate enough to work on Google Video — I’m also deaf. In some ways this reminds me of when closed-captioning (CC) was first introduced; before that, little on TV made sense and the only movies worth paying for were foreign films, because those were the only ones with subtitles! I now have the same sense of hope that I did then, when you could finally see visible progress and knew for sure that however long it took to perfect things, we really were on the way.

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I’ve watched the film, and felt that the plot wasn’t the greatest. But Marlee, O Marlee! She shines! And still does.

It was 1986 when Marlee Matlin trotted up to the stage to accept an Oscar for her performance in Children of a Lesser God. She was the youngest performer to receive an Academy Award.

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