https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight Faculty Spotlight presentation en-us 2019-03-04 17:01:01 UTC 2026-02-22 13:00:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337561720 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.”]]> 2019-03-04 17:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337561720 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337562531 2019-03-04 17:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337562531 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337566916 Arabic
Asante Twi
Bengali
Greek
Russian
Spanish
Cantonese
Indonesian
Japanese
Mandarin
Swahili
Tamil
Ukrainian
Yoruba
Persian
German
Basque
Vietnamese
Korean]]> 2019-03-04 17:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337566916 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337568293 2019-03-04 17:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337568293 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337588601 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.  ]]> 2019-03-04 18:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337588601 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337589451 Then, we asked the participants if the word "see" in their language can also mean "know,” as in "I see what you mean."  ]]> 2019-03-04 18:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337589451 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337589570 Then, the participants had a set number of minutes to brainstorm all the “blind expressions” they can think of. ]]> 2019-03-04 18:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337589570 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337589864 Finally, the participants translated, explained, and transliterated (when necessary) their expressions.]]> 2019-03-04 18:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337589864 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337590747 Sheri Wells-Jensen
Kimberly Spallinger
Lucinda Hunter
Ana Kryzhanivska]]> 2019-03-04 18:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337590747 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337591192 Shahin Hossain
Neeru Nagarajan
Michael Oshindoro
Stephen Ohene-Larbi]]> 2019-03-04 18:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337591192 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337591546 14 speakers of other languages]]> 2019-03-04 18:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337591546 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337592820 2019-03-04 18:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337592820 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337593295 2019-03-04 18:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/337593295 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338121734 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.  ]]> 2019-03-05 20:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338121734 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124310 Expressions that are really not metaphors. Example: if you stare at the sun, you can make yourself blind.]]> 2019-03-05 20:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124310 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124548 Example "blind drunk".  You can just take out the word "blind" and put in "very" and the sentence means the same thing.]]> 2019-03-05 20:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124548 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124725 Something you go into and find the end is blocked.  Example "blind alley".]]> 2019-03-05 20:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124725 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124968 Example "blind luck".]]> 2019-03-05 20:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338124968 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125198 Example, in Persian, you can say "blind stove" to mean infertile.  As in, her reproductive organs don't function]]> 2019-03-05 20:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125198 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125370 Example: in Japanese and Indonesian, we have expression about a "blind heart".]]> 2019-03-05 20:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125370 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125522 This is a general category for someone useless or incapable as in Bengali "He is standing there like a blind".]]> 2019-03-05 20:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125522 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125676 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".]]> 2019-03-05 20:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338125676 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338126971 – Kuruttu kabodhi "Blind blind!" Worse than just blind]]> 2019-03-05 20:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338126971 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338127295 – Kabodhi "Blind" as a slur for bad drivers or in general
– Kannaraavi "Something extremely ugly: so ugly it makes you blind"]]> 2019-03-05 20:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338127295 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338127390 – Kuruttaampokku "In the manner of a blind person." Careless, not paying attention
– Kannmoodithanamaaga "As if one's eyes are closed" ]]> 2019-03-05 20:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338127390 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338130458 – 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]]> 2019-03-05 20:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338130458 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338130504 – 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 "]]> 2019-03-05 20:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338130504 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132204 – 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"]]> 2019-03-05 20:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132204 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132247 – Bhai, aami ondho aamake vikkha din "Brothers, I am blind, please give me alms"
– Eta ondhoder chikirsha kendro "This is the blinds hospital"]]> 2019-03-05 20:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132247 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132769 – 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" ]]> 2019-03-05 20:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132769 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132863 – 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"]]> 2019-03-05 20:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132863 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132894 – Gba oju "To slap faces"
– Oja okuku  "Market of darkness, black blind market"]]> 2019-03-05 20:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132894 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132926 – 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"]]> 2019-03-05 20:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/338132926 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029076 – Slipa temrjava " Blind darkness; pitch-dark"]]> 2019-03-07 18:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029076 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029136 – Slipa stina "blind wall" 
– Slipe vikno "blind window"
– Zahnaty y slipu vulytsju  "Drive someone to a blind alley" ]]> 2019-03-07 18:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029136 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029215 – Slipa kulja "Blind bullet"]]> 2019-03-07 18:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029215 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029401 – 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!"   ]]> 2019-03-07 18:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029401 akryzh https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029452 – 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.)   ]]> 2019-03-07 18:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/akryzh/facultyspotlight/wish/339029452