Examples of using "Surda" in a sentence and their english translations:
She was blind, deaf, and dumb.
She was also deaf.
She was blind, deaf, and mute.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf.
Mary is deaf in her left ear.
- Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb.
- Helen Keller was blind, deaf, and dumb.
She is completely deaf in her left ear.
I'm blind, not deaf.
She's deaf and mute, and is getting blind, too.
- I am not deaf.
- I'm not deaf.
- I think I'm going deaf.
- I think that I'm going deaf.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf.