"Bruce Goatly"  wrote in message 
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> Nicole Massey wrote:
>
>> There's even more dissent in the deaf community on the implant divide.
>
> That's true in the UK as well. My wife, who worked for many years with 
> deaf people, is well acquainted with the community she terms the 'militant 
> Deaf', and the friction between those who regard implants as the Spawn of 
> the Hearing and those who look on them as the salvation of the deaf.
>
> And over here the RNID (the Royal National Institute for Deaf People) has 
> been termed Really Not Interested in the Deaf.
>
> But I think I've just veered seriously off topic...

What is off topic around there these days, save story ideas and trolling?

I've heard some interesting reassignments for the initials NFB among the 
blind community, too -- Network of Fundamentalist Buttholes  was an 
interesting use of the three letters, while at guid dog school one of my 
fellow students, who was conginetally blind, called them the (I've cleaned 
this up) National Fornicators of the Blind. "Nothing For the
Blind" is also 
one I've heard more than once.
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