Subject: Re: Accessibility for Deaf
From: Randal Rust <[email-masked]>
To: WAI-IG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:05:28 -0400
List-Id: <w3c-wai-ig.w3.org>

On 10/7/05, [email-masked]
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> The term "dumb" cannot be divorced from its "stupid" connotations whatever the context,

That is absolutely incorrect. Context is precisely what gives words,
phrases and sentences their meaning.

The term /dumb/ has multiple definitions in the English language which
are based on context. That's just the way it is.

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Randal Rust
www.r2communications.com