[duxuser] Re: request for opinions
- From: "Cindy Mock" <cinmoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:06:08 -0500
Good point. I suppose if I were brailling this for a particular student
or person, I may choose to adapt it depending on the student's skills.
However, if you are thinking about the general braille population, it
would be better to braille the exact print copy - in my opinion.
Maybe its time to end this discussion topic?
Cindy
Cindy Mock, M.Ed./TVI
Itinerant Vision Support Teacher
Student & Social Services, SpEd
Berks County Intermediate Unit
610-987-8408
cinmoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> "Bruce Toews" <Bruce@xxxxxxxx> 2/25/2009 3:02 PM >>>
If braille were a language and dots 23456 represented the word with I
might agree with you. However, braille is not a language, and
dots23456
represent the letters w, i, t, h.
If we start writing our own rules on how to braille things based on
our
personal preferences, then a blind person sitting in a restaurant is
not
able to confidently go from restaurant to restaurant with braille
menus
and know what to expect. A father goes into a restaurant with his
child.
The child says "What does the w with the line after it mean?" But the
braillist has taken it upon him- or herself to interpret the menu
beyond
what is written, so Daddy doesn't see any w with a line after it, and
is thus clueless.
Bruce
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:52:35 -0500, "Steve Dresser"
<s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>
> Bruce,
>
> Without getting into the merits of the BANA rules, "w/" does, in my
> opinion,
> detract in that its use is less efficient than the contraction we
already
> have. Although I know what it means now, it certainly wasn't obvious
to
> me
> when I first saw it. I suspect we could argue about this until the
end
> of
> time without resolving anything.
>
--
Bruce Toews
dogriver@xxxxxxxx
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