> given up on
 > hearing 'aids' (there has to be a better more apt name
 > for those
 > things...)

 BM> That's all they are.

 Some folks seem to see them as 'cures' ...


 BM> The TTY numbers that I call from my computer in hyperterminal mode
 BM> function like online chat, so there's no operator at all, just me on
 BM> my keyboard and the callee on his.  That works all right, AFAIC.

 Really? NO Operator in betweeN???? Well then! ha! That means the
hearies in my life have no excuse wrt 'talking through a operator."
the only PROBLEM is.. if you're going to call them don't they have to
be online too? hmm.

When I first used a tty it was via the computer but the operartor
typed back to me what the other person said on their phone.

What I like about the tty phone is at least they get to hear your
voice. My sister likes that (and hates to type btw.).

 BM> At work, they spoke of getting a device that would display text on my
 BM> end, and I could speak to the other person, presumably, although here
 BM> an operator was required to type the other person's message to me. 


Nod. That is what I had before I got the tty voice over phone.

...........

 > Can you help it though? THEY put it there. The ones
 > who refuse to meet
 > us half way with our efforts to ease communication
 > with them.

 > Perhaps the better thing to do is to communicate the
 > way you are able
 > with those willing and write off the rest who are too
 > self centered to
 > even try.

 BM> Sometimes you don't have a choice.

 True. The biggest complaint is 'the operator keeps asking me to talk
slower. Well I can understand that. I talk too fast too. Back when I
used the puter tty set up I sometimes chatted with the op (not suppsed
to but anyway... I had been asking for information so it was okay)...
one op told me some people expect you to know how to spell their names
if they're giving a name and get mad if you ask them to please spell i
tout... so they can type it. I can't understand people getting mad at
the ops.. they provide a virtually free service after all.


Cindy

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