[Blindtlk] Moon and 'sticky' Braille (was RE: Grade 3 Braille)

Tue Jun 23 19:05:46 UTC 2015

Hi Judy,

Yes, Moon Type consists of simplified raised print letters and numbers.

I’d definitely recommend the UK for a visit though I’m probably biased! It’s small enough to see a lot of it, and the public transit is pretty good even though we’re prone to complaining about it.

I’ve been to the US a few times, though the nearest I’ve been to Idaho is probably Washington State - my wife is Canadian so we popped over the border for a day.

It’s funny your dog got to visit the UK for half an hour.  That beats my record of visiting countries - I was once in Norway for 6 hours speaking at a conference, I bet I wasn’t 50 yards in the open air the entire time I was there.

Cheers,

Ed

> On 23 Jun 2015, at 12:51, Judy Jones via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Very fascinating.  I have never been to the UK, although my parents were military.  The only ones that got to go were my dad when he had a TDY, and, believe it or not, our dog.  When we had a nonstop back stateside, he had a layover and a 30 minute dog walk before the next leg of the flight.  My husband has always wanted to visit the UK.  We live in Twin Falls, Idaho and love it here.
> 
> I was never sure if moon type was braille or large print.  Is it raised print letters?
> 
> Thanks.  Have a good day.
> 
> Judy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Edward Green via blindtlk
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 11:40 AM
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
> Cc: Edward Green
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Moon and 'sticky' Braille (was RE: Grade 3 Braille)
> 
> Hi Judy,
> 
> Yes, Moon came from the UK.  It was one of a number of similar tactile
> representations around in the 19th century, until Braille ended up
> predominating.  I'm from the UK, and there was an interesting exhibition in
> London a year or so ago where many of these different systems were on
> display.
> 
> Happily material isn't produced using the sticky dots any more.  I think the
> material tended to spoil/fade more than material produced using more
> conventional methods.
> 
> I also lived in Germany for a while.  I never mastered fully contracted
> German Braille, though am familiar with some of the contractions for
> frequently used letter combinations such as the ones you mention.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones
> via blindtlk
> Sent: 22 June 2015 03:14
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Cc: Judy Jones
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Grade 3 Braille
> 
> Isn't the moon type out of England?
> 
> Have never seen it.
> 
> II have seen brailled materials from the UK, and rather than having
> punctured dots, there are tiny glue dots affixed to the page.  They can be
> peeled off with a fingernail, too.  I don't know if they are producing books
> the same way anymore, but thought it was fascinating.
> 
> We used to live in Germany, and the German cell was slightly larger,
> although not jumbo braille.
> 
> They had very interesting letter combinations native to their language, such
> as E-I sign, I-e, E-U, A-U, and the umlauted letters had their own braille
> characters.
> 
> Judy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ericka via blindtlk
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:54 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Cc: dotwriter1 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Grade 3 Braille
> 
> Hi everybody! Since we've been discussing all kinds of braille, I was
> wondering if anybody actually knows how to read moon type braille. I heard
> about it but never seen it. I'm not a keen braille user yet. I'm working on
> reading grade 1 well. It's just fascinating that you would read with
> textures instead of dots. Sounds slow but interesting. Like you Judy, I like
> history so this is all pretty interesting to me.
> 
> Ericka
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 21, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Szostak, Christine via blindtlk
>> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Wow, I wish I had learned it. I have never, before today, even heard
>> of this. I could see how it could really increase your speed. Now if I
>> could just get my students to try to use printed short-hand when
>> taking notes, perhaps lectures could go just a little faster:)!
>> Have a wonderful week all!
>> Chris
>> 
>> Dr. Christine M. Szostak
>> Assistant Professor of Psychology
>> Department of Social Sciences
>> Shorter University
>> Rome, Georgia
>> szostak.1 at osu.edu<mailto:szostak.1 at osu.edu>
>> cszostak at shorter.edu
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