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Random thought for the day
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Are you aware that deaf people can read & write?
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Bfromla
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Quite well in fact; hence the thinking, particularly more curious considering various speech therapy sessions. Reading a word vs hearing the word. Much less the many complexities of languages (including sign language,& charades). Just random food for thought. Enjoy
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I would assume that most of them think in whatever their national language is and much more fluently than people who can hear and are distracted by all the constant noise and senseless babbling that goes on. There are TTY telephone adapters so that they can send typed messages over voice phones. Many movies and television programs are transmitted with sub-scripts so they know exactly what is going on, without the distractions of the musical sound track and canned laughter. Most of the cell phone conversations happen in text, so that is no barrier. The libraries are full of books. They may need to be more aware of what is going on around them, because they cannot hear car horns or traffic noise, but their other senses become more focused and warn them of dangers.
There is no need to hear a word in order the think about the meaning of a word. The dictionary has pronunciations, along with the meaning. Some of the deaf people have learned to read lips, and some can speak quite well. It is mainly the people who have full use of all their senses, educated in the public school system, who are handicapped now.
They are missing out on music, but I won't listen to most of what is being called music now either.
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
1. It was the last of Beethoven's symphonies, completed three years before his death in 1824.
2. It premiered in Vienna on May 7, 1824.
3. By the time of its premier Beethoven was completely deaf. At the end of the piece, the crowd burst into applause but Beethoven, who had been a few measures behind the symphony, continued to conduct. The contralto, Caroline Unger, walked over to Beethoven and turned him around so he could accept the rousing applause.
4. It is the first symphony to incorporate vocal soloists and chorus into what, until then, had been a purely instrumental genre. Words are sung in the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus.
5. The words in the final movement were taken from the "Ode to Joy" poem written by Friedrich von Schiller in 1785. The poem has a strong message to all mankind: it is about living in peace and harmony together.
6. It's the most epic of Beethoven's symphonies, both in length and performers utilized. The piece is scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, mixed chorus, piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, and strings.
7. It was adopted as the European National Anthem in 1972. In 1985, it became the official anthem of the European Union.
8. When Philips started work on their new audio format known as a compact disc, many groups argued over what size it should be. They planned on having a 11.5 cm diameter CD while Sony planned on 10 cm. One bright chap insisted that one CD ought to have the capacity to contain a complete performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The duration ranges from about 65 to 74 minutes which requires a 12 cm diameter, the size of a CD.
9. Beethoven was a compositional rebel, rejecting standard classical practices in order to write with emotion. While many of his contemporaries were disgusted, if not intimidated by this, his influence on composers to come after him, like Brahms, Dvorak, and Mahler, shows how important a figure he was.
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