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   From: atbowler@thinkage.ca   
      
   On 1/4/2011 1:55 PM, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   > Claiming Your Disability Benefits : CRA SOTW   
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   >   
   > Andy Wong, Guest columnist   
   > Monday, November 8, 2010   
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   > I have a client who is literary blind as a bat. His vision impairment   
   > is irreparable.   
      
   I'm quibbling, but this sentence upsets me.   
      
   What is "literary blind"?  Is it some inability to appreciate   
   Shakespeare?   
      
   If he meant "literally blind as a bat", then the client   
   would not be eligible for any disability benefit on that basis.   
   Bats see quite well, many just have an additional sonar type ability.   
      
   Adding "literally" before something mean that the expression   
   is true in a precise or strict sense, not in some figurative sense.   
      
   "client who is blind as a bat" would be the wording he wants.   
      
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