[bksvol-discuss] Re: British vs American English designation Re:was Need Help Solving a Mystery
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:53:31 -0400
When I started reading braille books as a kid in elementary school, we had some
in our library that were British English. Some of these were in British
spelling but with American punctuation, and a few were printed by the Royal
National Institute for the Blind in London, so they didn't even have capital
letters. I just read them. I didn't have any problems. I don't know why this
distinction has to be made in the first place. British English and punctuation
are minorly different from what we use over here, that's all. It seems likely
that anyone who can read one can read the other with no difficulty. It's just a
silly distinction in my view, especially when it makes searching for books more
complicated than it needs to be.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] British vs American English designation Re:was Need
Help Solving a Mystery
Good idea. Then we wouldn't have to indicate whether it's U.K. or not
when we upload. I don't think it matters to the member reader, though I do put
in the comments that spelling and punctuation are British. I dn't know if a
braille reader or a Daisy reader would be confused by the British use of a
single mark ' instead of our quotation marks which are, " and the reverse for
quotes within quotes.
Cindy
--- On Tue, 8/21/12, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help Solving a Mystery
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:03 PM
Well I agree with Roger. The search should default to English, period.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:59 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help Solving a Mystery
I believes the proofer checks the language when checking in
the book. Also, I've seen series in which some books are U.S. English and
others are British. In fact, Choices, which I just uploaded is British spelling
and punctuation but Shaman, book 2 in the series wass American.My guess is that
it depends on the publisher
--- On Tue, 8/21/12, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help Solving a Mystery
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 5:39 PM
Thanks Em, if I knew that about the Advanced search
default, I forgot about it. I never use Basic search anymore because it gives
too many results. How that one book got set to English UK when the other eight
did not is another mystery.
Hmmm, I wonder if it could be reset to US English so it
comes up along with the rest of the series. Madeleine, Would you be able to do
that?
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Em Rose
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:30 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help Solving a Mystery
Hi Evan,
It seems the problem is the language setting. That
particular book is listed as English UK whereas the others in the series are
listed as English US. The advanced search defaults to English US. I believe
the basic search looks at all languages so you should be able to find it using
that.
Em
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:37 PM, "Evan Reese"
<mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guys, I have a little mystery I'd like your help with.
In checking on a series Lissi and I are working on, something strange is
happening with one of the books. The most recent book we did in this series,
The Going Rate, by John Brady, only shows up in the list of his books when I
click on the link to the author's name. If I type in the title, or the author's
name, or both, into the Advanced search field, the book does not show up. If I
enter John Brady into the
Advanced search field and go to the relevant author,
all eight of the other books we did come up, (and a ninth book about
interviewing which I think is by a different John Brady), but not The Going
Rate, which is the most recent one we did. I'm wondering if anyone else here
would care to try entering the title or author into the Advanced search field
and see what happens. Also, if anyone has any idea why the book doesn't show up
for me under normal searching, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I do frequent
searches for myself and Lissi to determine whether something is in the
collection in order to figure out what books to try to get to scan, and it
disturbs me a bit to find out that just typing in a title does not necessarily
bring up the book even if it is in the collection, or entering an author does
not necessarily bring up all of their books that are in the collection. I've
made sure my settings bring up books of all qualities, and besides, this book
was just recently approved and is in excellent condition, having been proofread
by the very best proofreader around. I'm biased, I admit. <smile>
Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing what other people
find. If others of you get the same results, then I think someone at Bookshare
needs to look into the matter. Thanks much.
Evan
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