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In response to "As per Jonah Keri's Twitter... A school wants a deaf kid named Hunter to change his name at school because the sign for that is a gun." by Name Withheld By Request

Well, they want him to change the way he signs his name, not change his name. -- nm

Posted by mara Aug 28 '12, 10:26

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It's all ridiculous, regardless. -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 28, 10:54
Forget the name part, even if they didn't want to allow a deaf person to just sign the word "hunter" at all that would be ridiculous. It's straight up Big Brother shit. -- nm - Ender Aug 28, 10:40 1
- Sure. -- nm - mara Aug 28, 10:42
to what? Toby? - zork Aug 28, 10:30 2
- "This is my son. His name is 'genocide'. Well, we started with Gene O'Cide, but had to shorten it." -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:56 1
  - (One day I will have to Dr Stalk myself and find all these random quotes I write that aren't quoting anything, and make a story from them) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:56
Which to someone that's deaf is the same thing. - spamlet Aug 28, 10:27 14
- I don't agree. A closer analogy, to me, would be asking a kid to change the spelling or pronounciation of their name. - mara Aug 28, 10:29 9
  - it's deeper than that, IMO. -- nm - loosilu Aug 28, 10:38
  - Which would be changing their name. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 28, 10:37
  - The sign is the word. By using a different sign, it's a different word. - spamlet Aug 28, 10:32
  - no. ASL is a language and making him do a different sign is changing the word. -- nm - zork Aug 28, 10:31
  - Yeah, I'd think that's wrong. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:30 2
    - I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying it's a better analogy. -- nm - mara Aug 28, 10:32 1
      - you're wrong, here. -- nm - zork Aug 28, 10:33
  - Still not ok. -- nm - Jim Aug 28, 10:30
  - It's 'as-wee-pay'. -- nm - Nic Cage Aug 28, 10:30
- This is true. And how old is he? Could get confusing for him. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:27 3
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    - Hey, the Columbine kids were a mere dozen years older. Well within the danger zone. - Dr.Vermin Aug 28, 10:32
  - 3 -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 28, 10:28
They could call him "H" and the sign could be "putting on sunglasses" - Beryllium Aug 28, 10:27
~...wants to be a Hunter again...~ -- nm - Dido si Aug 28, 10:26

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