This is more a sociological observation: roughly 50% of people (that's a guess) on discovering I couldn't speak, would then start whispering or mouthing words and waving their hands about in pidgin sign language. The logical problem with this - it was me that couldn't speak, and I hadn't lost my hearing - didn't easily present itself to them.
I'm not sure there's a big application to life from this, other than: presumably this is what people with disabilities experience regularly, the assumption that when some faculty doesn't function as usual in a person, whispering/talking loud/waving arms around will help.
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Here's a really funny example of that sort of hting - the former England manager (err...football), being interviewed in Holland by a Dutch reporter who speaks English very well indeed. Steve talks back to her in a fake accent, as though he were a Dutchman speaking English. Oh, and watch especially for when he says "as you say 'underdogs'..." - actually, it's WE who say 'underdogs', not them. It's hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWptErAWrmQ
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