The channel then mute his words, before Secker interjects: "I'm afraid we'll have to apologise for that language again and we'll leave it," she said, ending the interviewing as the singer looks bemused.
The figures are clearly not human; some are balky with language, others mute.
All this greatly impressed the European ambassadors: a Venetian once saw a vizier summoned to his own execution, in sign language, by a mute.
"The Black Balloon," directed by Elissa Down, was inspired by her experiences growing up in a household with two autistic brothers, the younger of whom served as the model for Charlie (Luke Ford), a mute who communicates in sign language and heaving, wheezing grunts.
Deaf children learning sign language from deaf-mute parents show in their signs the same course of development that is apparent in the speech of children with normal hearing.
Such mute poetry crosses the frontiers of language, the boundaries of genre, like water seeping into every crack.
In another she was mute, struggling to communicate through sign language, and in yet another she grappled with a brother's death in a hit-and-run accident.
For two years afterward, he did not speak, and doctors, believing that he was a mute, tried to teach him sign language.
Ken Kesey dictated all of his novels in sign language to a deaf mute who transcribed them.
But the army's newspaper, and the country's other Chinese-language media, were conspicuously mute.
