HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 7, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 http://www.medel.com/geoffrey-ball-life-award-2013/ Geoffrey R. Ball, father of Vibrant Soundbridge and grandfather of Bonebridge got a reward for the outstanding contribution for the people with conductive hearing loss. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knickohr Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 I read the book from him : "Und ich höre doch !" Interesting story about his life and the VSB - FMT. Thomas Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 7, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Definitely - I didn't know for it. An opportunity to relearn German... Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted November 8, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Ivana, you will have to translate it for me. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knickohr Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Nononooo ! This book was translated from English to German. So you don't have to lean German But, If you want learn German, I can sent you the book. Thomas Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 9, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 Nononooo ! This book was translated from English to German. So you don't have to lean German But, If you want learn German, I can sent you the book. Thomas I would gladly like to - Croatia was very much influenced historically by Germany and Austria and even now our medicine is built firmly on these foundations. What is the name of the book in English? Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 9, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 Actually, I have found it: No More Laughing at the Deaf Boy. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted November 9, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 german is one of the hardest languages to learn from what i understand Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 9, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 Not quite.... In Europe you have a lot of pretty imaginative languages like Hungarian for instance. Croatian is also not so easy to learn - our grammar is a lot more extensive and nothing like anglo-saxon group of language. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Sandy Posted November 10, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 I agree, when I travelled across Europe the two languages that were the hardest to understand were Hungarian and Finnish. Some days, drawing pictures was the only way to communicate. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Sandy Posted November 10, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 I agree, when I travelled across Europe the two languages that were the hardest to understand were Hungarian and Finnish. Some days, drawing pictures was the only way to communicate. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted November 10, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 WOW, I couldn't even imagine. Add a hearing loss on top of it. heck I have trouble with my own language. Ivana, do you have a number of different dialects to deal with or is it pretty similar wherever you go. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 10, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 I agree, when I travelled across Europe the two languages that were the hardest to understand were Hungarian and Finnish. Some days, drawing pictures was the only way to communicate. Understandable - these languages have same root: ugro-finnish group of languages. You anglo-saxons are not aware even slightest how your language is easier than whole bunch of other foreigh languages. Ok - you have that situation around so many tenses which a lot of people can not understand fully but - it is possible to have a reasonable communication in English even without it. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 10, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 WOW, I couldn't even imagine. Add a hearing loss on top of it. heck I have trouble with my own language. Ivana, do you have a number of different dialects to deal with or is it pretty similar wherever you go. Each country in Europe has large number of dialects even Croatia which is so small and, of course you struggle with them. For instance, dialect on the seaside (Split for instance) is much different than in the capital city - so different that even a lot of good hearing people can not understand them. They are pretty much stubborn and even when they come to the capital city they still use that hardly understandable dialect of theirs. I would compare it with hard accent&dialect of the southern part of States. Now you can see what is difference for me if I can understand what was said. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted November 10, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 Makes perfect sense. I can remember moving down south thinking, "what the heck are these people talking about?" Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 10, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 Makes perfect sense. I can remember moving down south thinking, "what the heck are these people talking about?" Some things are just more universal than - globalisation itself. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted November 10, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 Everybody makes fun of northeners with funny accents but WOW. It took some getting used to. Of course i have been down south long enough to pick up some accent but some of the (yankee) in me is probably never gonna leave. If i say the words coffee, talk, all, you guys, not hard to figure out where i am from. Problem is i draw out the word I now a little so my family up north makes fun of me for sounding like a southerner and my wifes family makes fun of me for sounding like a "Yankee' Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 11, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 11, 2013 Everybody makes fun of northeners with funny accents but WOW. It took some getting used to. Of course i have been down south long enough to pick up some accent but some of the (yankee) in me is probably never gonna leave. If i say the words coffee, talk, all, you guys, not hard to figure out where i am from. Problem is i draw out the word I now a little so my family up north makes fun of me for sounding like a southerner and my wifes family makes fun of me for sounding like a "Yankee' He-he... Not to good to sit on both chair.... Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted November 11, 2013 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 11, 2013 I cant win for losing. Loris dad takes every opportunity to remind me i am a yankee. My thought is, ok i get it! we have been married 20 years, you dont need to remind me. especially since i have been down here for over 20 years. That being said, i just cannot bring myself to say "ya'll" It just does not flow right. It will be "you guys" until the day i die i guess. Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpl2ci Posted November 12, 2013 Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 I cant win for losing. Loris dad takes every opportunity to remind me i am a yankee. My thought is, ok i get it! we have been married 20 years, you dont need to remind me. especially since i have been down here for over 20 years. That being said, i just cannot bring myself to say "ya'll" It just does not flow right. It will be "you guys" until the day i die i guess. Ok, if you can't say "y'all" try "you'uns"! Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted November 13, 2013 Author HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 Resistance is futile... Quote Link to comment https://forum.hearpeers.com/topic/395-awarded-inventor-geoffrey-r-ball/#findComment-2581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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