Rose Godfrey’s “Happy Farter Day” post reminded me of the bloopers deaf children and people too utter entirely by accident.

Sometimes I wonder why we even bother with training deaf children who can’t hear themselves well, to speak. Like myself. I’m stone deaf but have a fair speech which came from about 17 years of speech therapy. However, my speech is all memorized and if I’m just not at my peak condition, my tongue just slips a little and I can spew out a bunch of bloopers.

For example: “Please don’t shut the door.”

Sometimes “shut” comes out as “shit.”

Pretty hilarious to some hearing people but it used to be embarrassing for me. Now that I’m older, I don’t get embarrassed anymore. It’s life. : shrug :

French words give me a lot of problems. For a long time during my college years, I kept pronouncing “Mocha” as “mo-cha” when it’s supposed to be “mo-ka.” I was wondering for a long time why the barista kept going “What?” everytime I ordered “mo-cha.”

I’ve concluded long time ago that speaking is entirely for the benefit of the hearing, rather than for the deaf.

I’m sure my hearing friends and co-workers have heard more bloopers from me than I am remembering at this moment. Do you have some to share?

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