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We are interested in how the word “blind” is used in many languages, specifically those uses of the word “blind” that do not mean literally “cannot see.”

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Data we will discuss in this study represent blindness and blind people as ignorant, heartless
or pathetic. By doing studies like this, we hope to directly address the stigma faced by all disabled people.

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Arabic
Asante Twi
Bengali
Greek
Russian
Spanish
Cantonese
Indonesian
Japanese
Mandarin
Swahili
Tamil
Ukrainian
Yoruba
Persian
German
Basque
Vietnamese
Korean

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First, we asked participants how to translate "love is blind” in their language because that has been one of our interesting prompts so far, and, in some languages, the phrase does NOT include the word blind.

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Then, we asked the participants if the word "see" in their language can also mean "know,” as in "I see what you mean."

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Then, the participants had a set number of minutes to brainstorm all the “blind expressions” they can think of.

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Finally, the participants translated, explained, and transliterated (when necessary) their expressions.

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Sheri Wells-Jensen
Kimberly Spallinger
Lucinda Hunter
Ana Kryzhanivska

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Shahin Hossain
Neeru Nagarajan
Michael Oshindoro
Stephen Ohene-Larbi

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14 speakers of other languages

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Definition of blind in the Idioms Dictionary. blind phrase. What does blind expression mean? Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary.

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The Authors

Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald have been collaborating for more than 30 years to understand how minds operate in social contexts. Their special focus has been on the unconscious, automatic, less reflective aspects of the mind and the decisions humans make about themselves and others in society. Their analysis has centered on social categories of gender, race, age, class, sexuality, disability, religion, politics, nationality and the many other social groupings that mark modern societies.

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The Authors Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald have been collaborating for more than 30 years to understand how minds operate in social contexts. Their special focus has been on the unconscious, automatic, less reflective aspects of the mind and the decisions humans make about themselves and others in society.

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Expressions that are really not metaphors. Example: if you stare at the sun, you can make yourself blind.

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Example "blind drunk".  You can just take out the word "blind" and put in "very" and the sentence means the same thing.

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Something you go into and find the end is blocked.  Example "blind alley".

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Example "blind luck".

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Example, in Persian, you can say "blind stove" to mean infertile.  As in, her reproductive organs don't function

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Example: in Japanese and Indonesian, we have expression about a "blind heart".

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This is a general category for someone useless or incapable as in Bengali "He is standing there like a blind".

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This is our biggest category and includes situation where the person is ignorant or chooses to be unaware or cannot know something: "blind love", "blind to his faults" "blind date".

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– Kuruttu kabodhi "Blind blind!" Worse than just blind

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– Kabodhi "Blind" as a slur for bad drivers or in general
– Kannaraavi "Something extremely ugly: so ugly it makes you blind"

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– Kuruttaampokku "In the manner of a blind person." Careless, not paying attention
– Kannmoodithanamaaga "As if one's eyes are closed"

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– Onifrani nsere bodamfo "The Blind does not laugh at the mad person"
– Onifrani nsuro atantande "The blind is not afraid of filth"
– S3 w'ani reb) na s3 3t3 asi so a, womp "You are fortunate to have a cataract rather than to be blind"
– Ani nya a, na 3hwene nso anya "If blind, the nose is bad as well

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– Onifrani kyer3 onifrani kwan a, w)n nyinaa hwe ase "The blind does not lead the way"
– Onifrani mfa abufuo w) Kwae3 mu "The blind does not get angry in the forest "

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– Gba oju lowo "To snatch eyes from (someone else's) hand"
– Fo oju "To break eyes"
– Oju rele de "Eyes go home ahead of"
– Ko ri iran "Not see vision"
– Ko oju si apo "Put eyes in pocket"

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– Bhai, aami ondho aamake vikkha din "Brothers, I am blind, please give me alms"
– Eta ondhoder chikirsha kendro "This is the blinds hospital"

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– Bidhi aamr e duchokh ondho kore daw. Valobashar sokol duyar bondho kore daw "Oh God, make me blind, and close all of the doors of love"

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– Briddho lokti aamar mama "This old blind man is my uncle"
– Aami ondho kopal mondo "This is my misfortune: that I am blind"
– Ondho loktake kichu sahajjo koro "Help this blind man"
– Bhai, aami ondho aamake vikkha din "Brothers, I am blind, please give me alms"

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– Gba oju "To slap faces"
– Oja okuku  "Market of darkness, black blind market"

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– Ondho jone dew alo "Give light to the blind"
– Tumi andho naki, chokhe dekhte pawna ki hocche? "Are you blind that you can't see with your eyes what is happening?"
– Kanare highcourt dekhiye laav nei "There is no benefit to show the blind the supreme court"
– Etota ondho kivabe holam aami nije o janina "How I have been such blind I even do not know"
– O aamake ondher moto valobashto "He used to love me like a blind"
– Biddar sathe somporkohin jibon ondho "The life which has no relation with education is blind"
– Ondho hole ki proloy bondho hoy "Blindness can't stop catastrophe"

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– Slipa temrjava " Blind darkness; pitch-dark"

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– Slipa stina "blind wall"
– Slipe vikno "blind window"
– Zahnaty y slipu vulytsju  "Drive someone to a blind alley"

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– Slipa kulja "Blind bullet"

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– Z slipym dorohy ne znaydesh "You cannot find a way when a blind is leading"
– Slipyy kruvoho dohanjaje "A blind is catching up with crooked"
– I slipyy pobachyt! "Even a blind would see that!"

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– Na gnylyy tovar ye slipyy kupets "There is a blind buyer for all rotten goods"
– Fchepyvsja yak slipyy plota "Grabbed like blind to raft" - a person blindly following something (rules, laws, etc.)