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

Sun Sep 11 18:04:23 UTC 2011

LOL!
Chris, I know you can handle it, but some of the newcomers, that may
read this list, may not be comfortable.
I guess, that's what the blind kid list is for.
Anyway, to your point, some Southerners talk like that, but it's
against the majority of our culture.
Back to the BANA, what's the latest?
Blessings, Joshua

On 9/11/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, Carly! Let's just say it's bull crap! Josh, is that
> better for you? Oh wait...  coming from "the child."
>
>  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: Carly <carlymih at earthlink.net
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>,National Association of Blind Students
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> Date sent: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:55:37 -0700
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the
> Nemeth braillecode
>
>
>
>
> Good morning, Joshua,
>
> bologna? really? Are we 5 year olds?
> I am not at all being defensive with this I assure you it's just
> that
> can't we call it out for what it is?
> Also, is compelling a kid to use words like "bologna" or
> "poopoo,"
> really all that different other than being a weaker, more watered
> down synopsis of what he's really feeling?
> At 05:02 AM 9/11/2011, Joshua Lester wrote:
> I'm not immature.
> I just don't like having profanety on the lists, in case a child
> is on it.
> Sure they might be exposed to it, but we need to keep it to a
> minimum.
> I agreed with you, that the idea, to change our code, is bologna.
> You can say that, without using "BS."
> Crap, even may be better suited for the list, than the S word.
> I'm just saying this, for the protection of newcomers.
> Again, I wasn't offended directly.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 9/11/11, Carly <carlymih at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Perhaps, our resident 8th grader is not alone in his immaturity?
> Did
>  you not catch the substance of my letter, or were you too
> distracted
>  by a word which, can be if it makes you and resident 8th grader
> more
>  comfortable, expressed in terms of so much  bovine scatology? Do
>  these terms please you? I assert You are naive to believe that
>  resident 8th grader is not routeenly exposed to some language?
>  Besides, if we can stop fixating on one little summary of what
> the
>  BANA is seeking to commit upon our beloved braille code, we
> might be
>  able to effect, some change!
>  Jesus Joshua grow up! :33 PM 9/10/2011, you wrote:
> Wow!
> The cursing is back!
> We have an eighth grader, on this list.
> Please keep the profanety down.
> Thanks, Joshua
>
> On 9/10/11, Carly <carlymih at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi, Joshua,
>
>  That sounds perhaps a worthwhile gesture, in the event of there
> not
>  being  significant capital, behind this braille unification
>  bullshit...  We might  accept a fact that we might be, nice and
>  outnumbered, in this. .  The locals seem to really dig
> mediocrity.  I
>  guess you can just refuse to learn it, that's what I plan to do.
> 06
>  PM 9/10/2011, Joshua Lester wrote:
> 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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