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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t know about puns but I once saw a documentary about a deaf and dumb married couple who had a baby. The interesting thing was that the baby started “babbling” with its hands. Can’t remember if it was deaf and/or dumb as well.

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corvi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I know historically “deaf and dumb” meant deaf and mute, but, at least in the classes I took in college, I was told we don’t use that terminology anymore, for hopefully obvious reasons.

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- JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The euphemism treadmill spins round and round…
  
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  - bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This isn’t replacing a euphemism with another one. Dumb has a completely different meaning that’s not even close to mute.
    
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PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mute.

Please do not use “dumb”.

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks!
  
  I had asked DDG for a translation and it only told me about “dumb”. In the back of my head I thought that there was a better word but it wouldn’t come to me.
  
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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My non-deaf and non-mute baby also does hand babbling and will sometimes try to mimic us when we sign. Normal baby behaviour.

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