[nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braillecode

Sat Sep 10 23:49:11 UTC 2011

Hi Joshua,

I happen to know the chairman of the national NFB resolutions 
committee.  Her name is Sharon Maneki, and you can email her at 
nfbmd at earthlink.net.

 Chris Nusbaum

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National 
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

  Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at: 
www.icanfoundation.info for
information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
impaired children in MD say "I can!"

Sent from my BrailleNote

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
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Date sent: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:10:23 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the 
Nemeth braillecode

Please E-mail your resolutions committee.
We need an NFB resolution, to save the Nemeth Code.
Thanks, Joshua

On 9/10/11, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
 Evening all:
 What exactly is the problem with the Nemeth Code that it needs 
to be
 abolished? It would seem far more efficient to just keep the 
same
 thing that we've always used, rather than drop Nemeth, create
 something new, and have everyone have to re-learn everything.  
If it's
 not broken, don't fix it.  That said, I don't have the full 
story in
 front of me.  What exactly would the new code be? Would it be a
 combination of Nemeth and something else, like literary Braille? 
Or
 would it be something entirely new? I'm very curious to hear 
more
 about this and see where it goes.
 Patrick

 On 9/10/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> 
wrote:
 They're stupid, IMO!)
 What would Doctor Nemeth say about this?
 I wish he'd join this list, so he can discuss this stuff.
 He'd be appalled!
 Blessings, Joshua

 On 9/10/11, chris nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
 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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real
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blindness can
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