Not The Onion: Deaf first-graders shocked when told that other people can hear their farts.

[DetlefK]

[kozar]

1. TY Det

for a Thursday morning smile!

Koz

[Staph]

2. I have a friend who has no sense of smell.

When he was a kid, he was horrified to find out that others could smell his farts, even the silent ones.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I taught First Grade for 15 years and I loved eavesdropping on

their conversations. Repeating their stories at family dinners was always entertainment.

[Glorfindel]

4. "among the group of Deaf students and I."

I hope she doesn't pretend to teach her students the English language.

[Ilsa]

5. I'm irked over the use of "I" as well.

The quick test for easier, more obvious object pronoun is to leave out the other person in the object.

"The fart was heard by Simon and I." You'd never say, "The fart was heard by I."

I'm not a grammar expert. But some mistakes are more obvious than others.

[3catwoman3]

9. No one ever messes this up in the singular. Why it can't carry...

...over to the plural is baffling and irritating.

“Me and him are going to hang out.” And all variations thereof -

[grantcart]

6. I wonder if it is correct in English sign language which, as I understand it,

Has its own rules and isn't just a word by word translation ?

[Alwaysna]

7. True.

My late husband was deaf . We attended many deaf events such as deaf camping. I would be the only hearing person there. Sitting around a campfire and in the darkness I could hear random farting through the evening.

[Ilsa]

10. Don't know, but it was part of her narrative,

not part of her conversation with her deaf student.

[grantcart]

11. I understand but if she uses sign language a lot syntax and grammar could bleed back and forth

That happens to me when I am mixing between two languages.

I was just curious if anyone knew whether "and I " was normal in English signing

[mopinko]

12. you are correct.

a single word for both i and me would be typical a type of abbreviating things.
dont speak it myself, but my kid does.

[stevesinpa]

8. i was going to make the same comment.

it amazes me how many people don't understand this at all. and this is a teacher.