Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sun-barr!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!275!429!Tim.Smith From: Tim.Smith@f429.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Mensa Message-ID: <16065@handicap.news> Date: 17 Jun 91 15:32:48 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Tim.Smith@f429.n275.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:275/429 - HandiNet B B S, Virginia Beach VA Lines: 16 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 16065 [This is from the Silent Talk Conference] Yes, I AM fervent about ASL being a native language, after all, it's the language best understood by (MOST) (That was inserted to avoid hearing some people screaming "FOUL! FOUL!" at the top of their lungs) deaf people... So, let's give them THEIR language, and then teach them english through THEIR language! Pathology: That word digusts me.. I am deaf, I am not diseased. Why keep putting me with the Pathological IDIOTS? -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!275!429!Tim.Smith Internet: Tim.Smith@f429.n275.z1.fidonet.org