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

Sun Sep 11 18:27:17 UTC 2011

Hi all,
I don't think we need swearing to express our opposition.
Joshua, think about your resolution before proposing it and drafting it. If 
you want to proclaim you're against it, then what are you for and why?
We need to understand Bana's decission and what would replace nemeth. I'm 
not really for the change, but I do not know if a resolution is the answer.

As to not learning any new code/changes that Bana puts out, that is a bad 
decission. Times change, and whether we like it or not, we have to change 
and learn new written symbols.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Carly
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille 
code

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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> >> >
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