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

Sun Sep 11 00:13:23 UTC 2011

Thanks, Chris.
Blessings, Joshua

On 9/10/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> 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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>  Chris Nusbaum
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>  "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 nuissence." -- Kenneth Jernigan
>
>  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!"
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