[gurps] Mitigators (was Cyberpunk & 4e)

[Craig Roth]

On 7/27/06, Anthony Jackson <ajackson at iii.com> wrote:
>
> pentaj2 at Scranton.edu wrote:
>
> > If there were a "blind culture". There isn't.
>
> I wouldn't bet on that; I don't know of one per se, but there's a deaf
> culture and there are some issues around cochlear implants. Here's an
> example article about the issue:
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/cont28.shtml


The difference being that the blind don't have there own separate language
that some 'sighted' people don't understand. Although it shares a written
language, American Sign uses a completely different mechanism for speaking,
which is at the root of 'deaf culture'.

(Please forgive the single quotes, I didn't know what should and shouldn't
be quoted.)

-- 
Craig Roth
craig.roth at gmail.com