[nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille code

[chris nusbaum]

That's right, Joshua! Abolish the Nemeth code, and replace it with
what? A whole new code that BANA would make up and then we students
would have to suddenly drop all we know about Nemeth and switch to
some other code? That would slow the process down so much, and we
don't need to slow it down!

Chris

On 9/10/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> wrote:
> I'm all for a unified Braille code.
> That code, is the Nemeth Code!
> Leave it alone!
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 9/10/11, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
>> [Blindmath] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille code
>> Susan Jolly easjolly at ix.netcom.com
>> Fri Sep 9 17:10:37 CDT 2011
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>> I have just recieved my copy of the Summer 2011 Bulletin of the National
>> Braille Association (NBA) which is the professional organization providing
>> continuing education to both paid and volunteer braille transcribers here
>> in
>> the United States. The President's Message states, "At some point in the
>> near future, the braille powers-that-be will make a decision about a
>> unified
>> braille code for the English-speaking worlds--a code that will combine
>> literary and technical transcriptions under one set of rules and
>> constructions."
>>
>> Elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin, the NBA representive to the
>> Braille
>> Authority of North America (BANA) writes that the BANA "Education and
>> Outreach committee is still reviewing the possibility of a universal
>> code."
>> Note that the next meeting of BANA will be held November 3-6, 2011 and
>> will
>> be hosted in the Baltimore area by the NFB.
>>
>> If you believe as I do that the BAUK-like representation of maths in the
>> current proposals for a unified code are significantly inferior to the
>> Nemeth code's representation of mathematics, you might want to take action
>> now.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be ironic if the US were to abolish the use of the Nemeth code
>> just as it is being widely adopted in countries such as India and
>> Indonesia
>> which have larger populations of braille users?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> SusanJ
>>
>>
>>
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