GAME starts
How did I convey or pass a message from my mind to other people?
- Identified if they have moderate / good English understanding as I used the Board.
- Made the “dot dot dot” sound to draw their attention and look at the Board, thus they knew I want to use the Board.
- Needed to think of the English Keyword(s)
- Thought of spelling. Sometimes I forgot, not sure if “sleeping” for too long was a reason.
- They started moving their finger on the Board from “A”, “B”….
- I either blinked my eyes a few times or opened my eyes big for “Yes”; or moved my eye balls left and right a few times or closed my eyes for “No”.
- For Yes, some people wrote it down or some other people can remember it if they are experienced or have good memory.
- My BRAIN started getting busy. I needed to REMEMBER the spelling, which alphabets had been told, which will be the next alphabet. Kept EYES on the moving finger on the Board. Made sure I gave the right RESPONSE at right timing. If too early, need to CORRECT it by keeping my eyeballs left and right. If too late, WAIT until the finger moved on the right alphabet. (Women can do MULTITASKS. Ha! Ha! Ha! 😃😆😉)
- Some experienced one can guess my keyword(s) very quickly.
- For those without much patient tried making guess as well.
- For people with not good English understanding, I needed to “spell” the whole Keyword(s), then they type in Google Translate to find out the translation.
How do people communicate if they speak in Chinese (if they don’t know pinyin) or other languages only? (Puzzling 🤔)
Interesting ‘game’, Terri!
Yes, my GAME in ICU. I actually enjoyed it.