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Comments on 'Finding the Beauty'

Please note: These comments are the personal opinons of members, and do not represent any sort of official judgement, even if they are made by people in club management.  Everyone deserves respect for their creativity; but if you find a critical comment on one of your works, please don't take it personally.  On the other hand, personal attacks are not tolerated and any comment containing them will be deleted as soon as we discover it!

Amelia MargettsFeatured in LJ Community's Writing Spotlight 3-11-14!
Ellen MillionThis is another piece that I'm really happy to see get sponsored - it's a charming look at a really interested character. It's splendid to see Marai make a place for herself.
Non-Member ArtistOriginally posted in somewhat different form as a comment on the author's blog. I've been a linguistic researcher my whole career, and I did my grad work on American Sign Language, so I found this story of particular interest. I'm only somewhat familiar with the TW setting, so some of the questions I asked here may be obvious to regulars, but I hope this input will give some Torn World cocreators some ideas for writing about the deaf community(/ies) there.

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Well, I enjoyed that.**

Are there many deaf people in Marai's community? I ask because a single deaf person does not have a language.* It takes a community, and some continuity across generations, for a sign language to grow from homesign gestures. And the ease with which several people understand her signing, and sign to her, suggests a sign language, and therefore at least a small deaf community. In isolated areas, these can develop because of a founder effect: some of the early dwellers there carry a gene that makes deafness more likely. The best known example is probably Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.

It's clear from the speechreading that Marai is post-lingually deaf, i.e., she knew the spoken language before losing her hearing. But a genetic susceptibility to a disease that can affect hearing would increase the deaf population.

* in our world
** and not just as a geek :-)
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