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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • Rock Band 2. Bladder of Steel achievement playing with a full band of 4 (locally).

    It’s playing the entire setlist of 84 or so songs all the way through in one sitting. Without pausing or failing.

    We did it with all instruments on Medium, but we did it! (I could pass anything on Expert, but maybe not all the way through. My friends were borderline Hard players at best, so Medium was the only way we’d ever be able to do it together)












  • As the other commenter said, rhymes would be with visual similarities.

    Linguistically, a rhyme is when two words share the same nucleus and coda. In regular terms, that’s the same ending vowel and the consonants that follow it.

    In ASL, words aren’t formed exactly the same way, but do have similar components that can be used to make rhymes. Rhyming words could have the same motion, but a different shape, for example. Or the same position, but a different motion.

    I don’t actually speak ASL, so I can’t be certain about what looks best as a rhyme, but I understand some of the principles.



  • I’m not sure why you’re crying, but you’re incorrect.

    It is surprising to many people outside of the Deaf Community, but Deaf people can often hear. The Deaf are considered deaf once they have passed a certain decibel (dB) hearing loss. Many people who are profoundly deaf can still hear planes, dogs barking, etc. Hearing a sound does not mean that Deaf people can understand speech. A person with a significant hearing loss generally has difficulty or inability to hear speech even when aided.

    https://www.gatecommunications.org/deafness

    As well, people with cochlear implants are (generally?) also Deaf, but with the implant, they can hear.



  • Some Deaf people can still hear, in which case rhymes would make sense.

    Someone who’s never heard before probably wouldn’t get rhymes in English. But then again, someone who speaks English probably wouldn’t get rhymes in ASL.

    People who can hear would have an advantage though in that they’d be able to learn ASL and pick up on wordplay (like “rhyming”) that’s used in ASL. Unless a Deaf person becomes Hearing, they may never be able to experience rhymes in spoken English.

    … it’d be easier if our spelling wasn’t so darned stupid, lol