Many transcribers I deal with have taken the UEBOnline (Australian) course.
http://uebonline.org/
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Miss Sara:
Thanks. Can you suggest any other study materials? I know that the NFB has a
resource list, and I already have downloaded the lessons from their site.
Thanks again.
From: Sarah Rebecca Cohen
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Hi, Jerry.
Here’s what the Braille Authority of North America has to say about eliminated
contractions in UEB:
“ation and ally were eliminated because they created complications in rules
having to do with capital letters in the middle of words. Now all capital
letters can be used anywhere.
to, into and by were eliminated to allow for greater consistency in usage of
other symbols, and so that all words have space boundaries.
com was eliminated in order to remove the ambiguity between the contraction and
a hyphen.
ble was eliminated to allow for precise reading and writing of numbers wherever
they occur within literary context.
dd was eliminated to allow for a single way to show the period/dot/decimal
point even when it occurs in the middle of words or numbers.
o'clock was eliminated because it is a rarely used word and an exception to the
capital rule would have been necessary.”
http://www.brailleauthority.org/ueb/abcs/abcs-ueb.html#contractions
Hope this helps!
Sarah
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To All DBT Users”":
I have, what may be considered a dumb question. I have received my UPDATE TO
UEB manual. I was going through it up to the “Less Restrictive Contractions”
section and I thought to myself, Why are some of the contractions eliminated? I
know that for some, it is to reduce the possibility of confusing them with
other braille signs/contractions. However, as in the seperation of the
contractions for “For”, “AND”, “OF”, “THE”, “WITH”, and the letter “A”, there
is no connectivity between these. For work I do, it is great, income wise; but
I thought the whole premise of braille ws to conserve line/page space. As I
said, just a dumb question. Thanks for any clarification.
Jerry
