[nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemethbraillecode

Sun Sep 11 18:47:44 UTC 2011

We can discuss without profanity and yes there are youth on here who should 
not pick up bad language from this
list. Chris, you may be fine with it and not offended, but I bet many kid's 
parents would be and would take their kids off quickly if they knew they 
were learning profanity from a list.

Now  to the issue. Has anyone researched Bana's position or seen a press 
release? What do they wish to replace it with?

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:31 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the 
Nemethbraillecode

Hi Joshua,

I think you're talking about me, and while I think we should
limit the profanity because it's an archived list and that might
discourage people from joining the list, I don't need protection
from profanity anymore...  Lord knows I hear it from my parents!
* Smiles!

Chris Nusbaum

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Sent from my BrailleNote

----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:33:49 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] BANA still considering abolishing the
Nemeth braillecode

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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