600 - Talking About Sight

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🗓️ 19 July 2010

⏱️ 18 minutes

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If you can’t read this, then put on your glasses and listen to this episode on having bad eyes.

Slow dialogue: 1:07
Explanations: 2:45
Fast dialogue: 15:19

Sue: This medication I’m taking is messing with my vision. Everything is blurry.

Hamed: That’s a good reason for you to stay home from work today.

Sue: I can’t. I have to give a presentation this afternoon and I can’t flake out on my coworkers.

Hamed: What good are you to them if you’re blind as a bat?

Sue: Everybody else will have crystal clear vision, so all I have to do is to put in an appearance. Things may not be as sharp as I’d like them to be, but I can still make out people and objects – as long as they’re really big.

Hamed: I don’t think your coworkers are going to want you to blindside them today with your strange behavior. You’re going to do more harm than good.

Sue: I can see well enough. I only see double if I move my head like this. Whoa…

Hamed: At this point, I don’t care if you have X-ray vision. That medication is affecting more than your vision. It’s impairing your better judgment!

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

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1:01.4	number 600, talking about sight.
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1:49.4	This episode is called talking about sight, about how you see and vocabulary related to
1:59.6	seeing. Let's get started.
2:07.9	This medication I'm taking is messing with my vision. Everything is blurry.
2:17.2	It's a good reason for you to stay home from work today.
2:22.9	I can't. I have to give a presentation this afternoon, and I can't flake out on my co-workers.
2:33.4	What good are you to them if you're blind as a bat?
2:39.2	Everybody else will have crystal clear vision, so all I have to do is to put in an appearance.
2:48.4	Things may not be as sharp as I'd like them to be, but I can still make out people and
2:55.6	objects as long as they're really big.
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