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

[Carly]

Hi, Joshua,

I'm with ya, brother!

The example of that BANA attempt att braille I saw, struck me as 
being totally watered down and very much removed from the code I know 
and love so very deeply. In fact, my Not being able to find meaning 
within the sensual, bumps does not make me love braille any less. 
2011, you 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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