[bksvol-discuss] Re: British and U.S. spelling of words
- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:41:30 -0600
Oh, yes, Roger, I do wish Bookshare would combine British and US. Then we
would not have to choose in our preferences. It would save wear and tear on
the search engines too, because if one chooses US English as a preference,
one cannoot see books with British spelling and punctuation when using
advanced search. Quick search returns way too many choices.
Sue S.
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From: Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:56 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: British and U.S. spelling of words
To make it short, the Braille reader will be able to tell British
spelling from American spelling just as well as a print reader can tell
the difference. Let me add that the problem with Bookshare is that it
treats British and American English as if they were different languages.
The simple fact is that they are the same language that differ from one
another a lot less than dialects within a lot of languages do. Anyone
who can read one can read the other, whether the reader is reading in
Braille or not. That makes a strong argument for me that they should be
combined on Bookshare.
On 11/27/2012 9:33 AM, Ann Parsons wrote:
Hi all,
Cindy, you are right that Braille is contracted when books are published.
Braille comes in two basic forms: contracted and uncontracted.
Uncontracted Braille, what we old-timers used to call Grade I, is a letter
for letter transcription of print. this, form, as you might imagine takes
up a lot of space. So, the inventors of Braille came up with contracted
Braille or Grade II. Now, for those of you who are actual Braille readers,
just forget that you know about Grade 1-1/2 or Grade III or Nemeth or
Music or Computer Braille. I'm talkin' basics here.
Most books are published in Contracted Braille. This involves several
types of contractions including, whole-word contractions, letter
contractions and so on. For example the letter h by itself stands for the
word have. there are contractions for various letter combinations, e.g.
th, wh, gh, er, ed, ation, ally, tion, and so on. By using these
contractions, Braille is reduced in size.
As for the British spellings, yes, one should be made aware of this so
that one is not startled by surprize VS surprise, center VS centre, and
colour VS color. Speech synthes have no trouble reading this kind of
thing.
Ann P.
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