Büyükannem biraz ağır işitir. Yani hafifçe sağırdır.
- My grandmother is hard of hearing. In other words she is slightly deaf.
Tom'un bir kulağı sağır.
- Tom is deaf in one ear.
O dönemde işitme engelliler için okul yoktu.
- No schools for the deaf existed in that era.
Bazı işitme engelli insanlar işaret dili kullanmamayı seçiyor.
- Some deaf people choose not to use sign language.
Then the captain sung out Stand away! and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.