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

Sun Sep 11 17:31:35 UTC 2011

I think you will.  She's good that way.  If you don't let me 
know.

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From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
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Nemeth braillecode

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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