Timeline for Understandable word for someone with normal vision
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| Aug 11, 2016 at 7:22 | vote | accept | Vality | ||
| Aug 11, 2016 at 7:17 | answer | added | alwayslearning | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 5:02 | comment | added | stevesliva | You could just say "the blind, visually impaired and unimpaired." | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 3:15 | comment | added | Hot Licks | You of course do have to be careful with Ngram, in that you can get all sorts of false readings. But for this sort of thing it's quite useful. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 3:14 | comment | added | Vality | @HotLicks That is very good to know. It is important for me to balance the term being polite and neutral with being well understood by the audience. I am hoping that given in the context of already writing about visual impairments people should hopefully at least guess at the meaning of either phrase even if it appears unfamiliar. Also, thank you for mentioning Ngram, I had not thought of using that to assess potential familiarity of the phrases. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 3:10 | comment | added | Vality | @Rob_Ster That is interesting feedback. The last thing I would want to do would be to offend those with impaired vision - the group who we are attempting to most assist with the product. Thank you for the warning. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 3:03 | comment | added | Hot Licks | If concerns such as Rob cites make you leery of "normally sighted", Ngram shows "fully sighted" to be about half as popular -- still reasonably well-known and understood. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 2:56 | comment | added | Rob_Ster | I concur with @HotLicks, but note that in one of our circles of friends, in which about half of the members are blind, the term "sighted" is preferred. In this particular group, at least, adding "normally" would be a gaffe. Members would think it rude to imply that people who cannot see are not otherwise "normal." | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:29 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Any term you pick will depend to a degree on the context for comprehension. Eg, popping the phrase "normally sighted" in the middle of a story on whale watching will cause confusion unless some consideration is given to the immediate context. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:26 | history | rollback | Vality |
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| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:26 | comment | added | Vality | @HotLicks If you think most readers would understand "normally sighted" to mean that I would certainly say that is an answer. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:24 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Variations of "sighted" (eg, normally sighted) are commonly used to describe someone without a severe vision difficulty. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:22 | history | edited | Vality | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:12 | history | asked | Vality | CC BY-SA 3.0 |