And I'm sure she's also reading lips still until she gets fully acquainted with sound. This was an amazing story. And their reactions are too awesome. You don't often get to see this much joy now-a-days on the interwebs.
@APHutch1 During the interview she thanked 'deaf ed school and speech therapy.' They would have helped her to understand words and what people are saying.
I'm completely lost here. If she was born deaf, how can she talk so accurately? I was expecting her to yell like Marlee Matlin during the discussion with Ellen.
its true that USA is one of the leading nations when it comes to cancer treatment. and you do get real good quality of care, if you have money. but the sad fact is that most of your population can't afford "the best", and besides the best clinics.. you are lagging behind Europe in general. Saying USA have the best health care in the world is a myth.
Not saying European system is flawless.. no system is.. but it is humane.
Heartwarming ... but it's a shame. With a useable healthcare system like in Germany or UK, the public insurance just pays for your implant, you don't need 30k from your mother-in-law.
30'000 dollar for Cochle Implantat. To spend the money for the poor childreen and poeple, who is homeless. deaf people can without cochlea implantat to live!
This talk about $30,000 dollars for one implant and insurance not covering it is just alien to me. In Britain, it would be totally free. Sort it out America!
@1991nutmeg NHS doctors are actually paid well above the average wage in Britain. Also, if you had money and could go private, you wouldn't be on any waiting list. But if you didn't have any money, being on a waiting list is better than getting nothing at all.
You're system is great if you have money, and rubbish if you don't. Our system is brilliant for both.
@smezec BTW the poorest in our country dont wait on a list and DO NOT PAY A DIME, big reason why health care is so expensive.People can go whenever to see a doctor and as much as they want, but if they dont have to pay they dont value the service as much as someone who does.Pick anything you really enjoy to do or buy, you might go and get it everyday if you dont have to pay, but if you do, its not worth getting it everyday because you pay for it. Make sense? Not trying to be rude
@matszz Think of an expensive clothing store where the cheapest item is 200.00, but you are allowed to go and pick up a free item each day, how often would you go to the store? How often would you go if you had to pay. Given the UK's situation even if you did go to the store, there are so many people there you have to wait in line and get what you can. The pricing system is important for supply of goods and services, it allows the goods to go to people who most value them. Cheers
I think everyone values their life pretty high. If clothes for some reason were free people wouldnt go get clothes in the store every day, they would get as much as they needed to. I know this for a fact since I worked in a bakery and I could get as much free bread as I wanted. Also, the point about waiting in line is just stupid, for more reasons than one, for example, why stand in line if you're not gonna pay for it?
@matszz "why stand in line if you're not gonna pay for it?" Are you asking why would you stand inline for something free? Why people camp out to get the discounts at retail stores during the holidays? People will camp out for days in the cold because its free. You basically answered your own question. You would you stand in line for a Free car? Why stand in line if you're not going to pay for it? BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PAY FOR IT!
The reason people wait in line is because they are waiting for their turn to pay, if you dont have to pay, there wont be a line. Seriously, you retarded or something?
@matszz Wow I buy you books and all you do is eat the covers! I am talking about the line to get into the store DA. Again I in the US can go see a doctor in 15 minutes for a cold 24 hrs a day/ 7 days a week. The reason the UK and Canada have to wait weeks or months for doctors or surgery is for the very reason I have stated. The difference is quality and availability. As we have become more like europe prices have gone up and quality has gone down because people abuse the free system
Good, then you can stay in USA, I like the swedish system, its very high quality and its cheap, both in tax payer terms and individually. Im not as concernd with being able to see a doctor 24/7 about a cold. Im more concernd about everyone getting proper care, regardless of illness and social status.
Oh and by the way... I looked up WHO rankings of health care systems. Out of the top 25 countries, 20 are european, which you claimed had poor quality health care. USA is at 37. At the very top of the list is France who USA loves to hate. Must suck to be you, try to think just a little bit before you speak.
@matszz Your eduction is worse than your healthcare...go back the WHO and see QUALITY of health care and Quality of service and the US is top 5, then look at apples to apples comparisons, for example the US counts infant mortality after 22weeks while all other euopean countries start counting after 26 weeks, a full month after the US.My wife is a NICU nurse and the care those kids get is tip top.Again I can get an doctors appointment tomorrow for anything..can you? Are u in high school?
@matszz Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosisU.S. 65%England 46% Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:U.S. 93%England 15% Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months: U.S. 90% England 15% Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month: U.S. 77%England 40% Number of MRI scanners per million people: U.S. 71 England 14
Yeah I can see a doctor tomorrow, I can see a doctor today too. I dont know what idea you have of the swedish system, but its clearly the wrong one. We do have private health care aswell, but few use it, since the only difference is that it costs money. Im not in high school, and I dont envy your ideology. Im glad you're done with me. You're retarded.
@matszz I am so sorry thought you were from the UK...your gov budget cannot ration enough to keep up w/ the costs.According to a new healthcare law which came into effect in July 2010, Swedes should be able to see a doctor within seven days of first visiting a publicly financed health clinic, you had to pass a law for that? I am sorry about the high school comment, when you use words like "retarded" I should have known, you were not old enough to be in high school already..later!
@smezec As a lower middle class citizen I have never had a problem with our health care. We have programs that offer medicare for the elderly and low income. Everyone is pretty much treated equal in our health care no matter your class status. I agree it can get pricing but health care is a business. Doctors spend a great amount of time studying and preparing for their field. So they should be paid well. The machines and equipment are also very pricey to maintain.I will agree to disagree
@1991nutmeg There's something called taxes to cover the machines, pays etc. We sorted this shit out in northern/western europe a long time ago. Now it's your turn. I can't speak for everyone but europe is starting to get fed up with USA. You have a fear of raising the taxes will make you socialists or even communists. The picture of USA in europe is a fake society, fake realizations, fake politics but with REAL problems. But I know, keeping the role as the worlds greatest country might be hard.
Healthcare used to be a free-market business before the government got involved. Think about who benefits from a system like that & why something that worked well got changed. Not because it was broken, but because greedy hands had not touched it. Healthcare was extremely affordable way back in the day & even charities existed with donations to cover care if they could not afford it.
This system worked better than our system in the US today, & it worked better than universal healthcare. I think you must be brainwashed into thinking that people are cruel if they don't want taxes to keep going up, like it's wrong to want to draw the line at becoming 50/50 partners with the government by giving away your own money detrimental to your own survival & should somehow feel guilty.
@IamEyalMarcosLevit You're talking about a financial crisis (which btw, America was a part of too) and nothing to do with healthcare. You're argument is invalid.
Before you keep talking, get your head out of your ass, don't make this personal! Just because someone thinks a system doesn't work, doesn't mean they "hate it".
Stop being so naive, what happen in America would've been beneficial to Europe unless there was something wrong with the financial system EVERYWHERE.
Yes, Europeans have enjoyed relative luxury to other countries in many aspects.But karma is catching up and that crisis is not nearly over and its not gonna get better.
@IamEyalMarcosLevit That person was getting facts wrong and bringing up irrelevant points so I lost my temper.
What happens in America would NOT have been beneficial to Europe. 50 million people (the population of England) without health insurance would not benefit us. It would only benefit the super rich.
You know nothing about Europes financial and political situation, so don't comment. No matter what Europe goes through, we will never privatise our healthcare systems.
@IamEyalMarcosLevit Also, if you even read what I wrote, I said his comments served the purpose of those that hate it, I didn't say he actually hated it (although I think I could read between the lines..)
@Kiyamlol Everyone pays income tax, idiot. Both pre and post tax, Doctors earn a lot. Get over it. I'm not even sure why you'd make the point, would you rather an American system? If so, get out of this country you fucking traitor.
@smezec I work too idiot since when did i say others dont pay income tax? Traitor? What bone are you picking? Dont assume stuff you dont know. Your reply is so immature that its not worth talking to you anymore.
@Kiyamlol You were the one who picked an argument with me over a completely irrelevant point, which serves the purposes of those who hate Britain's system. Will you finally acknowledge that my original point about doctors getting paid very well was entirely accurate and your response was irrelevant?
@smezec No I dont because your just generalizing. They dont get paid as much as they should be. You can say what you want but will not agree with you. Goodbye~
@smezec There is no such thing as free, someone has to pay for it.Seeing how St Croix Medical in AMERICA created the hearing implant you should thank our society of ingenuity and innovation. It will not be long for the utopian European socialist dream comes crashing, Spain,Italy, Portugal etc can no longer afford the medical or social entitlements, something the US has followed by our misguided liberal leaders. W/O the working people of the US she would not be hearing anything today.IMHO
@quinnrasta You haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
The British NHS costs LESS than your American system. We pay through taxes and so it is free at the point of need. Much better than only available to those who can directly pay.
Also, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Ireland don't have economies like Britain. We are more like France and Germany who are actually doing quite well believe it or not!
If you think the EU is on its way out, you'll be waiting for quite some time mate ;)
@smezec Cost less...sure it does and a little Fiat is cheaper than a Range Rover. I can go get a CAT scan, MRI today have a knee surgery this week,call a doctor and be seen in 20 minutes. Cheaper yes, with far less quality of care.The NHS Confederation report says the health service in England will not survive unchanged meaning, NHS will have to CUT quality to survive, something the US faces because of our social programs. FYI medicare and medicaid pay for people that do not have money
@quinnrasta soooo maybe you should thank our Australian society for OUR INGENUITY AND INNOVATION as AN AUSTRALIAN developed the multi-channel cochlear implant.....typical American thinks the world begins and ends in the U.S.
@mkintominas1 Why would you say I would not be thankful to the Australian society for the ingenuity and innovation? I, speaking for myself give credit where credit is due, do not be so presumptive to speak for anyone but yourself.
@ssj4kevin It's free at the point of use. And we all pay together for everyone. It's this thing the world outside of the US has called "civilisation".
@smezec You mean civilization? And don't act like it doesn't came back in taxes. The idea of everyone paying for everyone defeats the purpose of a free market and currency. Let's all just go back to trading sticks and stones and bear skin in your utopia.
@FastlaneProductions1 No, I mean civilisation. I'm British, we use the suffix "ise" instead of "ize".
Lol, the idea of everyone paying for everyone is what has made society what it is and reinforces the free market. A free market can't work if the workers aren't educated or healthy. If everyone was sick and dumb, businesses wouldn't be doing so well, would they?
No one is suggesting buy everyone a tv with tax, but educate and make sure they're healthy at least!
@smezec It's hardly civilization. You might have a point if people chose to chip in their money to fund for medical procedures (just like they're doing in this video), but you can hardly call it being civilized if people are being threatened to be put in jail if they don't pay for the medical procedures the way universal health care works. People aren't choosing to be generous, they're having their money taken from them.
@ssj4kevin Believe it or not, the tax system is democratic. If no one wanted to pay tax, we'd vote for a party that wanted to abolish it. But we don't because we want public services. Our civilisation is one that has collectively decided that we will all contribute into a pot so that we can provide for our societies poorest.
If they don't want to pay tax, they could always move to Mogadishu where there is no effective government.
@smezec All that's necessary in that case is for the majority of people to be in favour of taxation. This is hardly the same thing as saying that all money collected through taxation is given willingly. All it means is that a larger group of people is telling a smaller group of people they need to give up their money or face the consequences. That doesn't sound particularly altruistic to me.
@ssj4kevin If they don't like taxation, they could always move to somewhere like Mogadishu. But, I have a feeling they'd rather stay in Britain where they won't get shot and think paying tax is a worthy price to pay.
@smezec And by the way, if your argument is simply that taxation is performed through a democratic system and therefore perfectly fine, then that would suggest that the laws in the US which make people pay for their own health care are just as fine. Universal health care isn't a popular idea in the United States and thus hasn't been made law. The majority of people are against it, and they are the ones defining the system as it is now; the system you take issue with.
@ssj4kevin Yes... your point? It's democratic so America gets the healthcare system it deserves. But part of democracy is debate, and here is my point in the debate - your system sucks. You're allowed to disagree, I'm allowed to say it.
@smezec dude thats how fucked up and corrupt this country (America) is... i mean im glad i was born here.. i love my country.. but i hate my fucking so-called leaders..
it's important to remember that most Americans are ignorant. And before you all start crying about it yes, i am American and yes, most of you are ignorant. If you weren't you would have understood the difference between me calling you ignorant and calling you stupid.
Ignorant Americans still think socialism is the enemy, all the while clinging on to their medicare, welfare and social security. They equate socialism with communism and are absolutely unable to separate the two.
@z3r0t0l3r4ns It's a shame because America is a great country with a lot going for it, but the leaders are all in the pockets of the super rich and don't depend on ordinary people enough to look out for them.
What the USA could do with is a national Trade Union Congress that starts and funds a political party and only owes an allegiance to working people, not billionaires. That is socialism and, so long as they don't call it socialism, Americans would love it.
I thought this video was so moving and it made me feel so good inside.Just hearing her voice for first time,hearing her children laugh for the first time and hearing her husband snore for first time I think that was wonderful.She will eventually turn her implant off at night so she doesn't have to hear her husband snore any more.Laughing out loud.
The whole story sounds fishy. If you watch the original video, she responds to the nurse with her hands covering her eyes. Sure she can hear now...but how the hell does she know what words sound like? I don't care how good at English you are...if you never heard the word before, you wouldn't recognize it. Dog barks could be coming out of the nurse's mouth and she wouldn't know the difference.
@OutlawVR Um... How the hell would you know? Were you deaf, then given hearing? If you'll watch her, you can see that she is watching Ellen intently. She's still learning sound association. She has a speech impediment, if you'd listen closely. If you have to be so skeptical about something like this, then something is wrong with you.
The story is grossly distorted or simply fake (to sell the product?). proper speech requires hearing in order for the speaker to properly modulate their voice. For the same reason that people listening to loud music on headphones may either shout or speak too quietly, Deaf people typically have a difficult time vocalizing normally. One reasons they are able to vocalize is because their brain is using the vibration caused by their vocal chords for modulation... per the deft community DeftYou.com
@joraejean Just that, deaf people "typically" have trouble vocalizing. She's watching Ellen's mouth, and learning to associate sounds all the time using her eyes and reading lips to match the sounds. Just because she doesn't look bewildered at all the new sounds (sounds that she's been familiarizing herself with for a week at this point) doesn't mean her story is exaggerated or false. Even if it is fake, you don't know this woman, so give her the benefit of the doubt rather than your suspicion.
That was just about the most amazing thing I have seen in a really long time. I myself am deaf, have been since I was5 years old. I was born without a certin tube in my ear that regulates the sound waves to the earddrum. I got my first hearing aid when I was 29, and I can say without haste that I cried like the biggest baby in the world the first time I heard myself speak. When I stepped outside of the hearing aid office I heard the wind for the first tiem and it broke me,I cried so much.Amazing
@kellyteeter Just awesome Kelly. I can only imagine! Now help me believe THIS story 100% as I think jorajean has some valid observations. I think there are more believable vids on this device where you can tell the people are excited but at the same time confused at the sounds they are hearing, which makes sense. Btw, My favorite vid is the one with the baby who drops his pacifier when they turn it on. If that doesn’t bring you joy, ur emotionless. Kind of like when you heard the wind blow!
To those asking why the family has a smoke alarm if they are deaf: a smoke alarm is mandatory in most every place I've lived across the U.S. It probably came with the house/apartment when they moved in.
This may be a really stupid question, but if she hasn't ever been able to hear herself her whole life, how come when she can hear she still talks with an American accent and I'm guessing, the specific accent from where she lives? Is that how much deaf people read lips and mouth movement, that they can pick up an accent just from watching someone speak?
@alexmcgrotty She probably had a lot of speech therapy. Some deaf people are able to speak very well. If you listen very close you can hear a very slight impediment on some of her letters.
@frenchkitty ... What? Theyre creating things to help ppl not take from them. Theres alot of hard work put into making these devices. How would you feel to go to work everyday and not get paid? Just cause they'll make more than you makes them corrupt?
that was the sweetest thing it brought tears to my eyes when they had the check to pay back her mother-in-law and the money for her other ear. That was a blessing to that woman and her family <3
@killgroy Someone did inbox me about my smoke alarm and it was done changed. Since we the family are deaf unable to hear the sound. But thanks anyway :)
@Black2Labs if you are deaf isn't a tone smoke alarm kind of useless? i am sure they make one that has flashing lights in every room, that may be something you would want to look into. better safe than sorry.
@thundasc She is deaf but her husband is not. Maybe she has a lighting one. If the alarm tone rings, her husband and her children will hear it granted that they are present with her.
@killgroy Someone did inbox me about my smoke alarm and it was done changed. Since we the family are deaf unable to hear the sound. But thanks anyway :)
@thundasc actually it depends on the extense of how deaf you are. People like myself who were not born deaf but became deaf tend to hear high sounds(dog whistles) but it is just very very faint.
We need more stories like that to be told in the world....unlike all the other sad and dreadful stuff we are stuffed with all the time, and that makes us cold and indifferent. More smiles to our faces, more beauty. Thank you for uploading this.
@shurednichso Check your numbers. 1) Middle East wars over the last 10 years: $800B. 2) Dollars added to the US debt in the last 3 years: $3T. 3) Amount of the deficit that could be covered by taxing the top 1% at a 100% rate: barely a third. People like you understand economics as well as you understand brain surgery. But I guess it feels good to blame your problems on the rich or somebody else, just so long as you don't have to look in the mirror.
Pay to hear? No, she had to pay the people who dedicated 15 years of their lives and livelihoods to bring her something that for previous generations was impossible.
@gsimonsays yes but 30 000 dollars a year is cruel, how many people can afford that? not too many, its the same with the people who makes wheelchairs and other things for handicapped people, is like they take advantage of the situation, you want to hear? you want to walk, talk like everybody else? then pay millions to us and we might do something, if we feel like it.
@frenchkitty You have an entitlement mentality. You feel people owe you stuff just because they make something you want. If the people of Envoy instead decided to just make another cold remedy you wouldn't care about them, but because they created something truly extraordinary they are now "cruel" if they set the price too high. So instead of praising Envoy, you despise them. What a perfect example of how the entitlement mentality corrupts character. Be glad for those who can hear.
@frenchkitty You have a very dark view of people who create medical devices, as if what they do is a form of extortion. Maybe protection from lawsuits inflates the price, or maybe these people have ambitions to cure blindness one day and only need the money to do it. Whatever the reason, new inventions always start at a price only a few can afford. The same was true of cars, cell phones, TVs, refridgerators, microwave ovens, and practically every other invention you can think of.
@nilasmila - there's always one who can't just be happy for someone on a personal quest. We already KNOW about the more unfortunate than ourselves. Thanks for the reminder, but can we spent ONE moment being happy for this woman who now has the ability to hear her own children's voices? Jeeeeeeeeez!
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ok...what a waste of money. she could have bought a 3 year old a heart transplant or somethin. hello, what about the friggin amazing deaf community? sign language? these are beautiful things, why can't we accept disabilities like this for the beauty they can bring to our lives instead of constantly trying to fit ppl into the main stream mould
I'm a linguist. I'm not surprised at all at how she had an accent. She's been reading lips from Texas all her life and American accents differ very much in vowel sounds. Take the word "awesome" for example. Brooklyn pronounces "uosum" and Boston goes "ah-sum". They shape their mouths completely differently when they speak those as well (try it yourself). My Texas parents say "nice" like "Nahs" almost to a smile, while other accepts don't stress their cheeks nearly as much. Cheers :)
4:05, my LEAST favorite sound ever
thezebrastripe89 3 days ago
LOL U Got us on that one
achasinghawk605 5 days ago
ahhhhh that smoke detector
zzzlt 5 days ago
And I'm sure she's also reading lips still until she gets fully acquainted with sound. This was an amazing story. And their reactions are too awesome. You don't often get to see this much joy now-a-days on the interwebs.
ZeroSumJ1 6 days ago
My question, how does she understand all the spoken words to her? How does she know what's being said to her? Don't get it.
APHutch1 6 days ago
@APHutch1 During the interview she thanked 'deaf ed school and speech therapy.' They would have helped her to understand words and what people are saying.
ariezmo 6 days ago
Your smoke detectors need the batteries changed.
luckenbachtx 1 week ago
dudeee. your caption things are slowwww. you should get an implant.
WilllowTreee 1 week ago
This is an outstanding video but why is ellen giving the 30 000 to sarah and not the generous elderly woman... hymmm
KemicalSupreme 1 week ago
I'm completely lost here. If she was born deaf, how can she talk so accurately? I was expecting her to yell like Marlee Matlin during the discussion with Ellen.
TheDunkkan 1 week ago
hehe despite this video, i think i hear popcorn popping in the background
iSHxSOPHiA 1 week ago
i donno bout you but lisps are really cute to me
stunashv 2 weeks ago
its true that USA is one of the leading nations when it comes to cancer treatment. and you do get real good quality of care, if you have money. but the sad fact is that most of your population can't afford "the best", and besides the best clinics.. you are lagging behind Europe in general. Saying USA have the best health care in the world is a myth.
Not saying European system is flawless.. no system is.. but it is humane.
"Love Your Neighbor" yea right.. not in USA
icchiism 2 weeks ago
Surprised she seems self-conscience to sign while she talks it would be hard to break that after only having hearing for 8 days...
hawaiilove18 2 weeks ago
This is why I love Ellen. (:
Tigermania08 2 weeks ago
3 dislikes have no soul.
sgharms 3 weeks ago
Heartwarming ... but it's a shame. With a useable healthcare system like in Germany or UK, the public insurance just pays for your implant, you don't need 30k from your mother-in-law.
photoallergic 3 weeks ago
What's stupid?
Danklin24 4 weeks ago
@Danklin24 his comment
gooksound 3 weeks ago
@Danklin24
30'000 dollar for Cochle Implantat. To spend the money for the poor childreen and poeple, who is homeless. deaf people can without cochlea implantat to live!
EleMenTeSwiTzErLanD 3 weeks ago
very very very stupid!
EleMenTeSwiTzErLanD 4 weeks ago
Amazing...
perrin275 1 month ago
This talk about $30,000 dollars for one implant and insurance not covering it is just alien to me. In Britain, it would be totally free. Sort it out America!
smezec 1 month ago 43
@smezec Yeah but we would have to wait in the waiting room for a year and then get an underpaid doctor
1991nutmeg 1 month ago
@1991nutmeg NHS doctors are actually paid well above the average wage in Britain. Also, if you had money and could go private, you wouldn't be on any waiting list. But if you didn't have any money, being on a waiting list is better than getting nothing at all.
You're system is great if you have money, and rubbish if you don't. Our system is brilliant for both.
smezec 4 weeks ago 17
@smezec BTW the poorest in our country dont wait on a list and DO NOT PAY A DIME, big reason why health care is so expensive.People can go whenever to see a doctor and as much as they want, but if they dont have to pay they dont value the service as much as someone who does.Pick anything you really enjoy to do or buy, you might go and get it everyday if you dont have to pay, but if you do, its not worth getting it everyday because you pay for it. Make sense? Not trying to be rude
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta
No, that does not make any sense at all.
matszz 3 weeks ago
@matszz Think of an expensive clothing store where the cheapest item is 200.00, but you are allowed to go and pick up a free item each day, how often would you go to the store? How often would you go if you had to pay. Given the UK's situation even if you did go to the store, there are so many people there you have to wait in line and get what you can. The pricing system is important for supply of goods and services, it allows the goods to go to people who most value them. Cheers
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta
I think everyone values their life pretty high. If clothes for some reason were free people wouldnt go get clothes in the store every day, they would get as much as they needed to. I know this for a fact since I worked in a bakery and I could get as much free bread as I wanted. Also, the point about waiting in line is just stupid, for more reasons than one, for example, why stand in line if you're not gonna pay for it?
matszz 3 weeks ago
@matszz "why stand in line if you're not gonna pay for it?" Are you asking why would you stand inline for something free? Why people camp out to get the discounts at retail stores during the holidays? People will camp out for days in the cold because its free. You basically answered your own question. You would you stand in line for a Free car? Why stand in line if you're not going to pay for it? BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PAY FOR IT!
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta
The reason people wait in line is because they are waiting for their turn to pay, if you dont have to pay, there wont be a line. Seriously, you retarded or something?
matszz 3 weeks ago
@matszz Wow I buy you books and all you do is eat the covers! I am talking about the line to get into the store DA. Again I in the US can go see a doctor in 15 minutes for a cold 24 hrs a day/ 7 days a week. The reason the UK and Canada have to wait weeks or months for doctors or surgery is for the very reason I have stated. The difference is quality and availability. As we have become more like europe prices have gone up and quality has gone down because people abuse the free system
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta
Good, then you can stay in USA, I like the swedish system, its very high quality and its cheap, both in tax payer terms and individually. Im not as concernd with being able to see a doctor 24/7 about a cold. Im more concernd about everyone getting proper care, regardless of illness and social status.
matszz 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta
Oh and by the way... I looked up WHO rankings of health care systems. Out of the top 25 countries, 20 are european, which you claimed had poor quality health care. USA is at 37. At the very top of the list is France who USA loves to hate. Must suck to be you, try to think just a little bit before you speak.
matszz 3 weeks ago
@matszz Your eduction is worse than your healthcare...go back the WHO and see QUALITY of health care and Quality of service and the US is top 5, then look at apples to apples comparisons, for example the US counts infant mortality after 22weeks while all other euopean countries start counting after 26 weeks, a full month after the US.My wife is a NICU nurse and the care those kids get is tip top.Again I can get an doctors appointment tomorrow for anything..can you? Are u in high school?
quinnrasta 2 weeks ago
@quinnrasta Talk about thinking before you speak
quinnrasta 2 weeks ago
quinnrasta 2 weeks ago
@matszz I am done with you lad, you do not argue with intellect, but with ideological envy...cheers!
quinnrasta 2 weeks ago
@quinnrasta
Yeah I can see a doctor tomorrow, I can see a doctor today too. I dont know what idea you have of the swedish system, but its clearly the wrong one. We do have private health care aswell, but few use it, since the only difference is that it costs money. Im not in high school, and I dont envy your ideology. Im glad you're done with me. You're retarded.
matszz 2 weeks ago
@matszz I am so sorry thought you were from the UK...your gov budget cannot ration enough to keep up w/ the costs.According to a new healthcare law which came into effect in July 2010, Swedes should be able to see a doctor within seven days of first visiting a publicly financed health clinic, you had to pass a law for that? I am sorry about the high school comment, when you use words like "retarded" I should have known, you were not old enough to be in high school already..later!
quinnrasta 2 weeks ago
@smezec As a lower middle class citizen I have never had a problem with our health care. We have programs that offer medicare for the elderly and low income. Everyone is pretty much treated equal in our health care no matter your class status. I agree it can get pricing but health care is a business. Doctors spend a great amount of time studying and preparing for their field. So they should be paid well. The machines and equipment are also very pricey to maintain.I will agree to disagree
1991nutmeg 2 weeks ago
@1991nutmeg There's something called taxes to cover the machines, pays etc. We sorted this shit out in northern/western europe a long time ago. Now it's your turn. I can't speak for everyone but europe is starting to get fed up with USA. You have a fear of raising the taxes will make you socialists or even communists. The picture of USA in europe is a fake society, fake realizations, fake politics but with REAL problems. But I know, keeping the role as the worlds greatest country might be hard.
BestefarFissk 1 week ago
@BestefarFissk
Healthcare used to be a free-market business before the government got involved. Think about who benefits from a system like that & why something that worked well got changed. Not because it was broken, but because greedy hands had not touched it. Healthcare was extremely affordable way back in the day & even charities existed with donations to cover care if they could not afford it.
EastWiq 1 week ago
@BestefarFissk
This system worked better than our system in the US today, & it worked better than universal healthcare. I think you must be brainwashed into thinking that people are cruel if they don't want taxes to keep going up, like it's wrong to want to draw the line at becoming 50/50 partners with the government by giving away your own money detrimental to your own survival & should somehow feel guilty.
EastWiq 1 week ago
@1991nutmeg And the 50 million who are uninsured? And those with insurance who get it denied when they become sick?
Doctors get paid well in a nationalised system too.
In my country healthcare isn't a business, it's a right.
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec and now look what is happening in Europe... I don't know of any system now days that is brilliant, they're all trash.
IamEyalMarcosLevit 1 week ago
@IamEyalMarcosLevit You're talking about a financial crisis (which btw, America was a part of too) and nothing to do with healthcare. You're argument is invalid.
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec
Before you keep talking, get your head out of your ass, don't make this personal! Just because someone thinks a system doesn't work, doesn't mean they "hate it".
Stop being so naive, what happen in America would've been beneficial to Europe unless there was something wrong with the financial system EVERYWHERE.
Yes, Europeans have enjoyed relative luxury to other countries in many aspects.But karma is catching up and that crisis is not nearly over and its not gonna get better.
IamEyalMarcosLevit 3 days ago
@IamEyalMarcosLevit That person was getting facts wrong and bringing up irrelevant points so I lost my temper.
What happens in America would NOT have been beneficial to Europe. 50 million people (the population of England) without health insurance would not benefit us. It would only benefit the super rich.
You know nothing about Europes financial and political situation, so don't comment. No matter what Europe goes through, we will never privatise our healthcare systems.
smezec 3 days ago
@IamEyalMarcosLevit Also, if you even read what I wrote, I said his comments served the purpose of those that hate it, I didn't say he actually hated it (although I think I could read between the lines..)
smezec 3 days ago
@smezec they dont rly get as much as u think, considering income tax takes shit loads of it. Source? My dad is a surgeon here
Kiyamlol 1 week ago
@Kiyamlol I said they get paid well above the average wage. That is a fact.
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec and i said income tax. they take a shit lot.
Kiyamlol 5 days ago
@Kiyamlol Everyone pays income tax, idiot. Both pre and post tax, Doctors earn a lot. Get over it. I'm not even sure why you'd make the point, would you rather an American system? If so, get out of this country you fucking traitor.
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec I work too idiot since when did i say others dont pay income tax? Traitor? What bone are you picking? Dont assume stuff you dont know. Your reply is so immature that its not worth talking to you anymore.
Kiyamlol 5 days ago
@Kiyamlol You were the one who picked an argument with me over a completely irrelevant point, which serves the purposes of those who hate Britain's system. Will you finally acknowledge that my original point about doctors getting paid very well was entirely accurate and your response was irrelevant?
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec No I dont because your just generalizing. They dont get paid as much as they should be. You can say what you want but will not agree with you. Goodbye~
Kiyamlol 5 days ago
@Kiyamlol Then you are an idiot because you are refuting fact.
smezec 5 days ago
@Kiyamlol Also, I didn't assume anything, I said "if".
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec There is no such thing as free, someone has to pay for it.Seeing how St Croix Medical in AMERICA created the hearing implant you should thank our society of ingenuity and innovation. It will not be long for the utopian European socialist dream comes crashing, Spain,Italy, Portugal etc can no longer afford the medical or social entitlements, something the US has followed by our misguided liberal leaders. W/O the working people of the US she would not be hearing anything today.IMHO
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta You haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
The British NHS costs LESS than your American system. We pay through taxes and so it is free at the point of need. Much better than only available to those who can directly pay.
Also, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Ireland don't have economies like Britain. We are more like France and Germany who are actually doing quite well believe it or not!
If you think the EU is on its way out, you'll be waiting for quite some time mate ;)
smezec 3 weeks ago
@smezec Cost less...sure it does and a little Fiat is cheaper than a Range Rover. I can go get a CAT scan, MRI today have a knee surgery this week,call a doctor and be seen in 20 minutes. Cheaper yes, with far less quality of care.The NHS Confederation report says the health service in England will not survive unchanged meaning, NHS will have to CUT quality to survive, something the US faces because of our social programs. FYI medicare and medicaid pay for people that do not have money
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@quinnrasta soooo maybe you should thank our Australian society for OUR INGENUITY AND INNOVATION as AN AUSTRALIAN developed the multi-channel cochlear implant.....typical American thinks the world begins and ends in the U.S.
mkintominas1 3 weeks ago
@mkintominas1 Why would you say I would not be thankful to the Australian society for the ingenuity and innovation? I, speaking for myself give credit where credit is due, do not be so presumptive to speak for anyone but yourself.
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@mkintominas1 FYI I am a huge fan of the Australian people and if I ever left the US, I would plan my move to Aussie land
quinnrasta 3 weeks ago
@mkintominas1
Dont waste your time with that guy, think he's in it for trollz. Or just a douche, makes little difference in the end.
matszz 3 weeks ago
@smezec - 2 basic flaws in your point: #1. Nothing is free. #2. Avastin
notmarcofilms 2 weeks ago
@smezec You mean it would be free in the sense that everyone else is forced to pay for it for you. Not free in the sense that it costs nothing.
ssj4kevin 2 weeks ago
@ssj4kevin It's free at the point of use. And we all pay together for everyone. It's this thing the world outside of the US has called "civilisation".
smezec 2 weeks ago
@smezec You mean civilization? And don't act like it doesn't came back in taxes. The idea of everyone paying for everyone defeats the purpose of a free market and currency. Let's all just go back to trading sticks and stones and bear skin in your utopia.
FastlaneProductions1 2 weeks ago
@FastlaneProductions1 No, I mean civilisation. I'm British, we use the suffix "ise" instead of "ize".
Lol, the idea of everyone paying for everyone is what has made society what it is and reinforces the free market. A free market can't work if the workers aren't educated or healthy. If everyone was sick and dumb, businesses wouldn't be doing so well, would they?
No one is suggesting buy everyone a tv with tax, but educate and make sure they're healthy at least!
smezec 2 weeks ago
@smezec It's hardly civilization. You might have a point if people chose to chip in their money to fund for medical procedures (just like they're doing in this video), but you can hardly call it being civilized if people are being threatened to be put in jail if they don't pay for the medical procedures the way universal health care works. People aren't choosing to be generous, they're having their money taken from them.
ssj4kevin 2 weeks ago
@ssj4kevin Believe it or not, the tax system is democratic. If no one wanted to pay tax, we'd vote for a party that wanted to abolish it. But we don't because we want public services. Our civilisation is one that has collectively decided that we will all contribute into a pot so that we can provide for our societies poorest.
If they don't want to pay tax, they could always move to Mogadishu where there is no effective government.
smezec 2 weeks ago
@smezec All that's necessary in that case is for the majority of people to be in favour of taxation. This is hardly the same thing as saying that all money collected through taxation is given willingly. All it means is that a larger group of people is telling a smaller group of people they need to give up their money or face the consequences. That doesn't sound particularly altruistic to me.
ssj4kevin 2 weeks ago
@ssj4kevin If they don't like taxation, they could always move to somewhere like Mogadishu. But, I have a feeling they'd rather stay in Britain where they won't get shot and think paying tax is a worthy price to pay.
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec And by the way, if your argument is simply that taxation is performed through a democratic system and therefore perfectly fine, then that would suggest that the laws in the US which make people pay for their own health care are just as fine. Universal health care isn't a popular idea in the United States and thus hasn't been made law. The majority of people are against it, and they are the ones defining the system as it is now; the system you take issue with.
ssj4kevin 2 weeks ago
@ssj4kevin but did you see how english peoples teeth look. i mean wow. great healthcare europe
achasinghawk605 1 week ago
@achasinghawk605 Fuck off. Go down to the hillbillies in the deep south and tell me their teeth are better than British teeth.
smezec 5 days ago
@ssj4kevin Yes... your point? It's democratic so America gets the healthcare system it deserves. But part of democracy is debate, and here is my point in the debate - your system sucks. You're allowed to disagree, I'm allowed to say it.
smezec 5 days ago
@smezec dude thats how fucked up and corrupt this country (America) is... i mean im glad i was born here.. i love my country.. but i hate my fucking so-called leaders..
Ravaill23 2 weeks ago
@smezec
it's important to remember that most Americans are ignorant. And before you all start crying about it yes, i am American and yes, most of you are ignorant. If you weren't you would have understood the difference between me calling you ignorant and calling you stupid.
Ignorant Americans still think socialism is the enemy, all the while clinging on to their medicare, welfare and social security. They equate socialism with communism and are absolutely unable to separate the two.
z3r0t0l3r4ns 5 days ago
@z3r0t0l3r4ns It's a shame because America is a great country with a lot going for it, but the leaders are all in the pockets of the super rich and don't depend on ordinary people enough to look out for them.
What the USA could do with is a national Trade Union Congress that starts and funds a political party and only owes an allegiance to working people, not billionaires. That is socialism and, so long as they don't call it socialism, Americans would love it.
smezec 5 days ago 2
I thought this video was so moving and it made me feel so good inside.Just hearing her voice for first time,hearing her children laugh for the first time and hearing her husband snore for first time I think that was wonderful.She will eventually turn her implant off at night so she doesn't have to hear her husband snore any more.Laughing out loud.
Larry6218 1 month ago
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OutlawVR 1 month ago
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OutlawVR 1 month ago
The whole story sounds fishy. If you watch the original video, she responds to the nurse with her hands covering her eyes. Sure she can hear now...but how the hell does she know what words sound like? I don't care how good at English you are...if you never heard the word before, you wouldn't recognize it. Dog barks could be coming out of the nurse's mouth and she wouldn't know the difference.
OutlawVR 1 month ago
@OutlawVR Yes.. and her voice wouldn't sound like that if she wasn't deaf.. I mean you can't really fake that offtone sound.
Gleek1able 1 month ago
@OutlawVR Um... How the hell would you know? Were you deaf, then given hearing? If you'll watch her, you can see that she is watching Ellen intently. She's still learning sound association. She has a speech impediment, if you'd listen closely. If you have to be so skeptical about something like this, then something is wrong with you.
Raskolize 1 month ago
The story is grossly distorted or simply fake (to sell the product?). proper speech requires hearing in order for the speaker to properly modulate their voice. For the same reason that people listening to loud music on headphones may either shout or speak too quietly, Deaf people typically have a difficult time vocalizing normally. One reasons they are able to vocalize is because their brain is using the vibration caused by their vocal chords for modulation... per the deft community DeftYou.com
joraejean 1 month ago
@joraejean Just that, deaf people "typically" have trouble vocalizing. She's watching Ellen's mouth, and learning to associate sounds all the time using her eyes and reading lips to match the sounds. Just because she doesn't look bewildered at all the new sounds (sounds that she's been familiarizing herself with for a week at this point) doesn't mean her story is exaggerated or false. Even if it is fake, you don't know this woman, so give her the benefit of the doubt rather than your suspicion.
Raskolize 1 month ago
this is just one of the most amazing stories I have ever witnessed.
FuZzOtagE 1 month ago
What an amazing story. It's stories like this that make you realize that there are still some good people in this world.
Mooncrest0926 1 month ago 3
What a wonderful gift, Ellen is an amazing person, god bless you.
altcape 1 month ago
Snoring may be the result of sleep apnea. It might be good to see a doctor.
amperro 1 month ago
Im glad for her that she can hear now
But this day is very depressing for me, my grandmother who i was very close to passed away :(
jbubbaa 1 month ago
That was just about the most amazing thing I have seen in a really long time. I myself am deaf, have been since I was5 years old. I was born without a certin tube in my ear that regulates the sound waves to the earddrum. I got my first hearing aid when I was 29, and I can say without haste that I cried like the biggest baby in the world the first time I heard myself speak. When I stepped outside of the hearing aid office I heard the wind for the first tiem and it broke me,I cried so much.Amazing
kellyteeter 1 month ago
@kellyteeter Just awesome Kelly. I can only imagine! Now help me believe THIS story 100% as I think jorajean has some valid observations. I think there are more believable vids on this device where you can tell the people are excited but at the same time confused at the sounds they are hearing, which makes sense. Btw, My favorite vid is the one with the baby who drops his pacifier when they turn it on. If that doesn’t bring you joy, ur emotionless. Kind of like when you heard the wind blow!
wpbsadie 1 month ago
insurance should cover this
nartoelek 1 month ago
wow im sorry that u guys are deaf
iTzKiNG1 1 month ago
Yeah- for 60 grand, Envoy bought probably 10 million in advertising, sales, & good will! Smart in my opinion
But all the tats - really!?! :O(
sowhatdude1 1 month ago
i cried more than sarah
JNeverMindMe 1 month ago
To those asking why the family has a smoke alarm if they are deaf: a smoke alarm is mandatory in most every place I've lived across the U.S. It probably came with the house/apartment when they moved in.
CherryBonBon 1 month ago
This may be a really stupid question, but if she hasn't ever been able to hear herself her whole life, how come when she can hear she still talks with an American accent and I'm guessing, the specific accent from where she lives? Is that how much deaf people read lips and mouth movement, that they can pick up an accent just from watching someone speak?
alexmcgrotty 1 month ago
@alexmcgrotty Lip reading, vibrations and there could be some captions popping up somewhere out-off-camera..
TheDarklord0211 1 month ago
@alexmcgrotty She probably had a lot of speech therapy. Some deaf people are able to speak very well. If you listen very close you can hear a very slight impediment on some of her letters.
angeldarklcd 1 month ago
shes so pretty and badass
thecrazychikz3 1 month ago
this is beautiful!
shereenlasania 1 month ago
The first one when the device is turned on made me cry. Now I see this!!! Can't stop crying! This made me smile!!!
3carats 1 month ago
@frenchkitty ... What? Theyre creating things to help ppl not take from them. Theres alot of hard work put into making these devices. How would you feel to go to work everyday and not get paid? Just cause they'll make more than you makes them corrupt?
Toshtosh111 1 month ago
@gsimonsays I agree with you, you can't expect it to be free cause you cant afford it thats unrealistic.
Toshtosh111 1 month ago
I cried like a baby.
ashesawful 1 month ago
How do you deposit a large check like that? It won't fit in an ATM machine.
ProjectM555 1 month ago
the people who disliked were probably deff and were just reading the captions:-)
aguilaralbert 1 month ago
@aguilaralbert
That was really unneccesary.
Shahar333 1 month ago
shit i thought that beeping was from my own house haha
gnlnick7 1 month ago
that was the sweetest thing it brought tears to my eyes when they had the check to pay back her mother-in-law and the money for her other ear. That was a blessing to that woman and her family <3
1Nicole00 1 month ago 3
That annoying beeping in the background is your smoke alarm I recommend you change the batteries and test the device at least once a month.
killgroy 2 months ago 39
@killgroy Someone did inbox me about my smoke alarm and it was done changed. Since we the family are deaf unable to hear the sound. But thanks anyway :)
Black2Labs 2 months ago 45
@Black2Labs I apologize.
killgroy 2 months ago
@Black2Labs Then why do you have a smoke alarm if your whole family is deaf?
deltafour1212 1 month ago 6
@deltafour1212 thats the reason lying is a sin...
AxtoxthexJ 1 month ago
@Black2Labs Can you please explain to me WHY you even have one?
TheDarklord0211 1 month ago
@Black2Labs if you are deaf isn't a tone smoke alarm kind of useless? i am sure they make one that has flashing lights in every room, that may be something you would want to look into. better safe than sorry.
thundasc 1 month ago
@thundasc She is deaf but her husband is not. Maybe she has a lighting one. If the alarm tone rings, her husband and her children will hear it granted that they are present with her.
TiPiPiRiT 1 month ago
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@killgroy Someone did inbox me about my smoke alarm and it was done changed. Since we the family are deaf unable to hear the sound. But thanks anyway :)
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thundasc 1 month ago
@thundasc actually it depends on the extense of how deaf you are. People like myself who were not born deaf but became deaf tend to hear high sounds(dog whistles) but it is just very very faint.
kellyteeter 1 month ago
@kellyteeter oh interesting. now i am curios though, what caused your hearing loss? (if you don't mind me asking of course)
thundasc 1 month ago
@Black2Labs Why are you deaf with a fire alarm that uses sound? Can one of you at least hear it?
houghtob1234 1 month ago 2
@killgroy Trippy. My smoke alarm is beeping too, I totally thought this comment was directed at me and I flipped out.
Eunnette 1 month ago
@Eunnette LOL!
killgroy 1 month ago
@killgroy lol i actually thought it was my own alarm beeping until i read this comment.
NoNiceNamesLeft 1 month ago
i was checking my own detectors lol i just put new batteries in them i was so pissed
matt47forTED 1 month ago
@killgroy hahaha what a funny comment
iOrganicTank 1 month ago
i just teared up a little bit anyone else?
rebirthbs 2 months ago
@rebirthbs Yep... needed some tissue. Lol
Xenohno 2 months ago
@rebirthbs me too! how could you not. such an amazing story, so happy for her
ttaylorsmithh 1 month ago
We need more stories like that to be told in the world....unlike all the other sad and dreadful stuff we are stuffed with all the time, and that makes us cold and indifferent. More smiles to our faces, more beauty. Thank you for uploading this.
Chantale35 2 months ago
wow... if 30k is just a "little gift" then we want those little gifts :)
navalatanjjnn 2 months ago
honestly how can someone dislike this?
BlitzwingRules 2 months ago
sarah looks very earnest and kind as well, no doubt her mother in law likes her so much
cherryhuai 2 months ago
<3
tonimining 2 months ago
thanks for uploading this
weirdstuffanimation7 2 months ago
Awesome video - awesome story - awesome people.
sacredrage 2 months ago
@shurednichso Check your numbers. 1) Middle East wars over the last 10 years: $800B. 2) Dollars added to the US debt in the last 3 years: $3T. 3) Amount of the deficit that could be covered by taxing the top 1% at a 100% rate: barely a third. People like you understand economics as well as you understand brain surgery. But I guess it feels good to blame your problems on the rich or somebody else, just so long as you don't have to look in the mirror.
gsimonsays 2 months ago
I don't believe she was able to CURE DEAFNESS BY WRITING A CHECK.
gsimonsays 2 months ago
Pay to hear? No, she had to pay the people who dedicated 15 years of their lives and livelihoods to bring her something that for previous generations was impossible.
gsimonsays 2 months ago
@gsimonsays yes but 30 000 dollars a year is cruel, how many people can afford that? not too many, its the same with the people who makes wheelchairs and other things for handicapped people, is like they take advantage of the situation, you want to hear? you want to walk, talk like everybody else? then pay millions to us and we might do something, if we feel like it.
frenchkitty 2 months ago
@frenchkitty You have an entitlement mentality. You feel people owe you stuff just because they make something you want. If the people of Envoy instead decided to just make another cold remedy you wouldn't care about them, but because they created something truly extraordinary they are now "cruel" if they set the price too high. So instead of praising Envoy, you despise them. What a perfect example of how the entitlement mentality corrupts character. Be glad for those who can hear.
gsimonsays 2 months ago
@frenchkitty You have a very dark view of people who create medical devices, as if what they do is a form of extortion. Maybe protection from lawsuits inflates the price, or maybe these people have ambitions to cure blindness one day and only need the money to do it. Whatever the reason, new inventions always start at a price only a few can afford. The same was true of cars, cell phones, TVs, refridgerators, microwave ovens, and practically every other invention you can think of.
gsimonsays 2 months ago
@frenchkitty its 30k per ear..
navalatanjjnn 2 months ago
Ellen, thanks for making their lives better. She deserves it.
I don't believe she had to PAY TO HEAR.
Thanks Ellen ;D
IntensiveBytes 2 months ago
that is one fine ass Karma !!!
00belief00 3 months ago 3
what a nice story
chincheek1 3 months ago
she looked hotter in the original video
meatissodumb 4 months ago
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@meatissodumb is that all you care about? ....
BaconHawkFggt 3 months ago
@nilasmila - there's always one who can't just be happy for someone on a personal quest. We already KNOW about the more unfortunate than ourselves. Thanks for the reminder, but can we spent ONE moment being happy for this woman who now has the ability to hear her own children's voices? Jeeeeeeeeez!
Charlottewilliams32 4 months ago
Ellen has just gone up in my estimations.....
bentonmatt75 4 months ago
amazing :)
JonjassDesigns 4 months ago
You need to change the 9V battery in your smoke detector (hence the beeping noise in this video).
tommern89 4 months ago
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ok...what a waste of money. she could have bought a 3 year old a heart transplant or somethin. hello, what about the friggin amazing deaf community? sign language? these are beautiful things, why can't we accept disabilities like this for the beauty they can bring to our lives instead of constantly trying to fit ppl into the main stream mould
nilasmila 4 months ago
@nilasmila
what a heap of crap ...are you disabled in any way??
jpschaak 4 months ago
@nilasmila Idiot.
sosiopat 4 months ago
Ellen rocks!
mbdulka 4 months ago
It fascinates me that she retains some sort of american accent, having heard none in her life.
KowaruKei 4 months ago
@KowaruKei This is not a conspiracy, I'm a medical student and am just curious.
KowaruKei 4 months ago
@KowaruKei
I'm a linguist. I'm not surprised at all at how she had an accent. She's been reading lips from Texas all her life and American accents differ very much in vowel sounds. Take the word "awesome" for example. Brooklyn pronounces "uosum" and Boston goes "ah-sum". They shape their mouths completely differently when they speak those as well (try it yourself). My Texas parents say "nice" like "Nahs" almost to a smile, while other accepts don't stress their cheeks nearly as much. Cheers :)
IReallyMissCybertron 4 months ago 11
Sad part, so many people wont be that lucky.
No universal coverage of such basic needs in the richest country on earth.
Shame.
shurednichso 4 months ago