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

Joshua Lester jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
Sun Sep 11 04:06:57 UTC 2011


Carly, it's shameful.
I E-mailed the chairman of the resolutions committee.
Hopefully, I'll hear something.
Blessings, Joshua

On 9/10/11, Carly <carlymih at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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