> harder to hear. Interesting. Would you really qualify that as being like "quieter volume", or was it more like it was harder to "recognize" words out of the

> harder to hear. Interesting. Would you really qualify that as being like "quieter volume", or was it more like it was harder to "recognize" words out of the dialogue? > Obviously not the case in deaf-mutes who never learned to speak of course. I wonder what reading is actually like for these folks, since letters symbolize sounds; they _must_ recognize word-at-a-time with no sub-vocalizing, right? I hope we get lucky and a random person with experience in the field stops by ;)