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itself largely with his and his speech therapistsā efforts to provide him with the means to communicate once again with the outside world. This involves the speech therapist reciting the alphabet (arranged in order of most-frequently used letters), with Jean-Do blinking when the desired letter is reached, and then repeating the procedure ad infinitum. At an excruciatingly snail-like pace, Jean-Do spells out words, then sentences. As last he writes the eponymous book of his ordeal, and then dies-of pneumonia. Surprisingly, the film is often humorous, although the end-credits blooper reel was nowhere to be seen.
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computer/medical show about 15 years ago, I saw just such a contraption. The person would be wearing a sort of cap with a device that shined a IR beam at the eye and "looked" at the reflection. This information was sent to a computer, and the monitor has the representation of a keyboard on it, with a blinking cross showing where the person was looking. So s/he would just move the cross to the letter and then blink. The blink would "enter" the letter. There were also some editing functions available. Bunthorne (talk) 19:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
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reflect a beam. Jean-Do could aim that beam at a display board on which are arranged letters and common words. When that beam had clearly settled on a letter, the system would beep, and that would be Jean-Doās cue to blink, thus entering the letter to a string being built up. For more feedback, speech production software could read aloud the words as Jean-Do is creating them and provide anticipatory options, to be selected by choosing āYesā from the board.
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linguistic problems everywhere. They are engendered, ironically, by a typical author's familiarity with their material. This familiarity leads to a word-blindness as to how a naive reader might interpret their words. One of the main villains is the ambiguity inherent in the little word "or". I found an excellent example of this just now in the
Discussion page for Elephant. Here it is:
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Asparagus Syndrome, or my nasty male left brain is working overtime, but while the rest of the theatre were blubbing, I was thinking āIs reading the alphabet REALLY the best and only way they could get poor old Jo to talk? And this is in France, a world leader in
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There's been a lot of work towards creating a brain-computer interface to help people in this situation. See the work by
Michael Black from Brown University... especially his work on neuromotor prothesis development. Sancho 01:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC) Sorry, I can't remember any details, but at a
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This passage in the entry for "Elephant" has now gone, but it worth noting that the culprit here is the ambiguity of the word āorā, which can have two meanings. The first is āalso known asā, and the second is āin addition toā. The author intends āorā to mean āalso known asā, but a naĆÆve reader could
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Feel free to make your points here. I am attempting to compile a list of common mistakes, focussing on ones which obscure meaning. The end-result would be a manual that might help budding writers, and have applications far outside
Knowledge (XXG). Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I see these kinds of
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I recently saw the 'true story' movie "Diving Bell and the
Butterfly" about Frenchman Jo-Dominique Bauby, who suffers a devastating stroke which leaves him with the use only of one eye. This is ālocked-inā syndrome, as he cannot move, eat or talk, but can feel and think as before. The film concerns
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The film shows him as having perfect control over his right eyeball, yet there is no attempt to utilize this fine motor control for communication. How about fitting a contact lens for this eye in which might be embedded a small reflective disk? Now shine a soft light on this eye, and it should
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to some external source where similar concerns are raised - rather than add an opinionated rant from one
Knowledge (XXG) editor. The reason Knowledge (XXG) works, and has grown, is that it attempts, and largely succeeds, at rising above the urge-to-silliness.
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I could hardly credit that the rest of this poor manās life was spent listening to nurses sprouting the alphabet again and again and again. Sure, it was an excuse to perv down their cleavage, and they were hot, but this is ridiculous.
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medicine and medical technology. True, the events of the film are from 1995, but this laborious method of communication could just as readily have been utilized in 1700 rather than 1995!
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Anyone can throw a ray of light on this? After all, Jean-Do could be any of usāhe is, ironically, our everyman, John Doe. Myles325a (talk) 00:23, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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Take a look at the dasher program. It would be perfect for such a person who can only move their eyes. Ariel. (talk) 12:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
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