Give me a practical example of a contraction such as dot 5 m, which does bridge
syllables. Looking at your post, I an glad I learned to read and to write
Braille. By simply reading and writing it at my mothers knee. Rather than
having to learn a bunch of rules. I fear, had I been required to learn the
rules for the writing of standard English Braille, I never would have learned
to read and to write it at all. I remember in 1970 or so, I had a look at an
adult book on the learning of Braille for adults who were attempting to learn
the code. I said to myself, then, I would not even want to try to learn the
code. If I had to learn it the way the book said to do.
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Winiecki
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 8:13 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: ccdWhen Contractions Profoundly Alter Word
Pronunciation
While it is accurate to say that in UEB the initial-letter contraction for
"mother" (5,134) is not used in "chemotherapy," this is not because the
contraction bridges syllables.
Regarding initial-letter contractions, UEB 10.7.1 reads:
"Use the initial-letter contraction as a wordsign and wherever the
letters it represents occur; except for the specific provisions given
below; and unless other rules limit its use."
The first sentence of this rule indicates that we should not use
syllable-bridging as a reason to not use initial-letter contractions (if
syllable-bridging were disallowed, it would be applicable for all
initial-letter contractions and would be indicated in the rule).
The second sentence of the rule refers to a list of words in which one does
not use an initial-letter contraction. "Chemotherapy" is on that list.
The third sentence uses the mysterious and oblique phrase that we find
throughout the UEB rulebook: "...unless other rules limit its use." While I
would be near the front of the line of people asking that the rulebook were
more specific than "...unless other rules limit its use" in this case we should
apply one of the UEB Preference rules in 10.10, and in particular 10.10.9:
"Do not use a groupsign if its use would seriously distort the
pronunciation or hinder the recognition of the word."
This rule applies because in the list of examples provided immediately after
10.10.9, the word "chemotherapy" is shown. This means that the rules of UEB
explicitly disallows the initial-letter contraction "mother" in "chemotherapy"
because doing so would seriously distort the actual pronunciation and
recognition of the word.
If you have gotten this far, I think I should apologize for 'geeking-out' on
the Rules of UEB. Perhaps we should just say it is my own not-so-private
obsession...
_don
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:36 AM Angel238 <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would think not. As the contraction straddles the division between
syllables.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 9:12 PM
Subject: [duxuser] ccdWhen Contractions Profoundly Alter Word Pronunciation
>
>
>
> Is the contraction fo"mother" (dot 5, m) actually supposed to be used in
> the word chemotherapy? dIf so, how can that possibly be justified? The
> other question is, if a transcriber encounters a contraction-laden word
> that they themselves cannot read or recognize easily, is it okay to
change
> it> Please advise.
> Catherine
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> -Catherine Thomas
> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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