[duxuser] Re: Simple question
- From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:06:54 -0400
Actually, they're in computer braille, which is not quite the same as Grade I,
which is really uncontracted literary braille.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Leavens
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 16:48
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Simple question
Except that internet addresses and e-mail addresses are always in grade 1
braille so as to mitigate any confusion. Of course there are a bunch of other
symbols surrounding such addresses and embedded within them, things like dots
4-5-6 followed by maybe dots 3-4-5 and should there be a slash or back-slash
those too are multiple cell symbols. Truly, I can't hardly read braille any
more.
I realize that I am an aging anachronism resisting change for the sake of my
computer which seems unwilling to cooperate in sharing the work.
Grumbling off into the past,
Dale Leavens.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lewicki, Maureen
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:29 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Simple question
Interesting, Dale, yes I wonder about the ble contraction. My students have
never ever been confused by it. However, in today's unconventional writing and
internet addresses, a ble in the middle of a string of letters and numbers will
be indeed confusing, as we will have trouble deciding if it is a ble or a
number, won't we?
Maureen Murphy Lewicki
Teacher of the Visually Impaired
Bethlehem Central Schools
700 Delaware Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054
http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/
On Mar 19, 2014, at 4:17 PM, "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ambiguity?
Humans don't have a single problem with differentiating between "ble" and
"#". Is this another case of us humans now working for our computers?
No wonder braille literacy is on the decline. with all the symbols now
used to designate some of the simplest braille I can't hardly read the modern
stuff.
Dale Leavens.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C" <gone.to.dawgs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:25 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Simple question
Oh boy. I threw that document together in a hurry as a cheat sheet
before I left home for two weeks and now I cannot find that uhm, error. I was
so sure I had seen it but now I cannot. Need more brain food. Thanks tho for
trying to help. It was good to have that cheat sheet along.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
--Fun World
Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn
E-mail-
Gone.to.Dawgs@xxxxxxxxx
On 3/19/2014 11:52 AM, nicky Roos wrote:
Which braille translation are you using? What you see as a "ble"
contraction
is actually the number sign.
Nicky
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