1835 Deaf Banquets – Translation available
The initial translation of the 1835 de l’Epée anniversary banquet is now ready. You’ll find it at https://mikegulliver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/1835-bilingual.pdf The 1836 banquet may be a little while as I have nothing … Continue reading
Deaf Banquets 1835 – and a glimpse of Berthier’s poem
The transcription of the French account of the 1835 banquet is now complete, and available here. The translation is nearly done. I’ll put it up as soon as it’s ready. … Continue reading
An open letter to Ofsted
Here, an open letter to Ofsted, regarding their extraordinary publication – yesterday – of a consultation document aimed at Deaf children and young Deaf people (follow the link on that … Continue reading
Yesterday was also #captionTHIS day in the Basque country
Yesterday, those following any deaf-associated Twitter accounts will have seen that they were full of the #captionTHIS hashtag. #captionTHIS is a campaign to make those involved in all kinds of … Continue reading
Online translation tools, thoughts and challenges
I’m aware that posting up the French Banquet transcriptions isn’t enormously helpful without the English – unless, of course, you can read French (in which case, let me know and … Continue reading
1834 Banquet
I’m not sure how far I got with publishing this last year – but here are the completed French transcription in pdf form, and a provisional early bilingual text with … Continue reading
Parisian, 19th century Deaf banquets – a different approach
In previous attempts to digitise and release a translation of the 19th century French Deaf banquets, I’ve always attempted to do so without digitising the original. Laziness really… a shortcut, … Continue reading
It’s a no brainer
OK, so here’s a bizarre proof of Utopian Theory if I ever saw one… If you read this regularly, you’ll know that I finished my PhD in 2009 – right … Continue reading
Why don’t we use open-channel communication more?
I realised, when I opened this to write, that it’s already been nearly 6 weeks since I last wrote. The main reason for this is that – post AAG, I’ve … Continue reading
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