Today at Die Maus I learned about another language.
I once had a friend in Cottesloe/Perth who was near to blind and I wondered how she poured water to the exact amount in a glass, walking in with that from her kitchen.
Yips, now I not only guess but know.
Finger, easy, huh?
Feel.
Another sense to read what you do.
The town-center of Magdeburg:
We also have descriptions in braille - post to come.
And I know there is one thing blind people need help with.
LOL.
Dog poo.
I had to drag her away to not touch the poo with her stick, we had a "good?" laugh.
Sadly she quit the friendship, I assume she fell in love with Ingo and left us both.
It was interesting to see how clean her home was, how - certainly - organized she was.
This girl in Die Maus, she even did karate!
I can see, but I could never do that! (I once tried Aikido - bummer, no...).
I have no idea what would be worse, loose sight or hearing, what do you think?
I lost like 50% of my right ear and need glasses to see properly.
Never hear Freddie again? Chirping birds?
Never see Spring flowers, The Little Giant Girl and all that, what is worse, which language - if you had - would you choose, sight or hearing?
Am I glad I still have both.
Am I glad I can write to you in English, speak German, a bit French and even understand a wee bit of Dutch (a weeeeeee bit).
The idea of Esperanto never made it.
I do think for most English is just that.
Russian? My teamleader once sang the alphabet to me.
"Interesting" - but I could never identify anything!
With one of my Ex-boy friends I was in Egypt - had no clue at the train station and needed to find help - I could not read anything!
Got the sweetest guy, who even took us to his home (the train left in the evening) and his Mum cooked for us.
Would it be the same today in Egypt?
Could I even address a man there these days?
Sad it was 199... loooong ago and there was no internet / e-mail...
The language of... love and understanding, respect.
Or a cam!
Screen readers etc...
I am glad I still have ALL my senses.
Well, more or less - dreamed the other night my glasses were broken - uhhhhh.
Henry 🦁 (see above) and I join The Language theme again.
And yes, two posts in one day again, scroll down (or click here) and turn on the sound, you won´t regret that!
14 comments:
Years ago I was in Morocco and had wonderful experiences with local people in an era when we didn't all view each other with suspicion or hostility. I am sure it could not be repeated today when there is a huge gulf between Muslims and others, fuelled mainly by politicians and the media, not by ordinary people.
Yes, I so wonder what became of "my" taxi-driver.
I bet we could be friends, just like that.
Yet here you see it differently. Muslim men - and boys - treat women badly, most, not all!!!
Wish respect and peace would rule.
...life is about adjusting.
It would be hard to let go of either sight or hearing.
Tom, yes, but it´s hard.
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William, hope we keep it all!
It would be difficult to lose either sense, but I think sight would be worse.
The world has changed so much, and we tend to not trust people as easily as before.
Difficult, but if I had to choose I'd rather keep my sight. I'm not out and about much, but I'd hate to have to give up driving. And movies with subtitles are easy for me, while I think those descriptive subtitles aren't nearly so good.
I don't think I would want to lose my sight. You can learn sign language to communicate. I once knew someone who was deaf and could read lips. He was good too and you wouldn't know he was deaf.
I hardly been any place, but though blogging I get learn about the natives of place or the old timers. Personally I don't look at my self as an old timer.
Coffee is on and stay safe
That's an interesting question. Loss of hearing would not be good, but I guess people could learn sign language. And use captions for TV. For me, I think ti would be loss of sight. ARt would be hard without it, and no color. I know I could listen to books if I couldn't read them, but I would still miss seeing the words. Hope you had a great weekend Iris.
I hope neither thing happens to us! They are both awful barriers to overcome.
I don't want to lose either, but if I had to lose one, it would be my hearing. Then I would get cochlear implants.
I definitely don't think it would be the same in Egypt today, Aimee and I were there nine years ago, it was fabulous to see everything but it was a little scary even then, they are just so poor, I feel sad for them. If I had to chose Iris, and I really hope I never have to, I would prefer to keep my sight 💜
Rick's blind cycle friend, Nino, is coming up for the weekend so they can ride their bikes. Or rather, ride the tandem (Rick will steer.) Nino and his wife Marie are far more functioning than I am.
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