bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

I don't know about puns but I once saw a documentary about a deaf and mute 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 mute as well.

corvi ,

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.

JackGreenEarth ,
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The euphemism treadmill spins round and round...

bleistift2 ,

This isn’t replacing a euphemism with another one. Dumb has a completely different meaning that’s not even close to ‘cannot speak’, while ‘mute’ conveys exactly that.

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