[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

Wed Feb 5 01:19:08 UTC 2014

Sounds like this is a source of a misguided pride? You're missing out 
on literature. Are ya happy?
for today, Car04:05 PM 2/4/2014, you wrote:

>I never used NLS.  I never have.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:54:36 -0600
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille
>
>Hi Marissa,
>
>You can get a grade three code manual from NLS (National Library 
>Service) at the Library of Congress.  You know, the place where you 
>usually order novels and things.  They have a fairly good grade three manual.
>
>
>Ryan
>
>On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:18 PM, marissa <pianogirlforlife7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>Where can I learn about this grade three braille and read it? My TVI 
>is interested to know there is a grade three braille.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:53:21 -0600
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille
>
>I will echo what has already been said here--it is a more contracted
>version of grade 2.  I learned a little of it in 7th grade, but never
>used it.  I honestly wonder if anyone does use it.  I don't know
>anyone who does.  Lillie, it's not exactly like texting in braille.
>It's more like shorthand.  Before computers were as easily available
>as they are now, secretaries and court stenographers learned a system
>of writing called shorthand.  Basically, it was a system of symbols,
>like grade two braille, that would be substituted for letters.
>For
>example, if you were sighted and taking minutes for a meeting, as you
>do for OABS, you might use shorthand.  It's different than texting
>shorthand because it actually uses symbols like grade two braille uses
>contractions.  Grade three braille is basically contracted
>contractions.  I believe I still have a book at my mother's house
>somewhere that has the grade three code.  If your really curious, I
>can get it and give it to you.
>
>Ryan
>
>On 2/4/14, Loren Wakefield <theweird1 at mediacombb.net> wrote:
>T does come in handy.  I know some of it, and my wife knows quite a bit.
>There use to be a course from Hadley that you could take and learn grade
>III.
>
>Loren
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly
>Mihalakis
>Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:15 AM
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list; National
>Association of Blind Students mailing list
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille
>
>
>Hi, Sami,
>
>         Grade 3 is even more deeply contracted than is Grade 2
>and is
>used
>primarily for personal correspondence and notetaking purposes.
>Learn it if
>you can!
>for today, Car
>408-209-3239
>
>as far as I know is used for personal correspondence and notetaking  a syAt
>06:23 PM 2/3/2014, David Andrews wrote:
>Grade 3 Braille has lots of abbreviations.  It is basically a Braille
>shorthand.  There aren't a lot of teaching materials, and nothing
>regularly printed in it.  It was never widely used.
>
>Dave
>
>At 07:45 PM 2/3/2014, you wrote:
>Hi All.
>
>I am creating this topic further to Dave's post about NFB training
>centers, who said that he learned Grade 3 Braille in those
>centers.
>I didn't want to post this in that topic so as not to go off-topic.
>So I would like to know, could someone try to explain how this works?
>Because to be honest, this is the first time that I'm hereing about
>it.  Was this only discovered recently? Does it have, say, more
>contractions then grade 2 braille uses?
>I'm sure that I'll be able to understand your explanations about it,
>because I have been using braille for quite a long time (since I was
>in kindergarten, and now I'm in 11th grade).  I don't think I've
>learned grade 2 braille when I first sttted to learn braille, but I
>have been using grade 2 braille for as long as I can remember, and am
>therefore very good at it, if I say so myself.
>Not only that, but I just finished the course on Braille music at my
>music school.
>I hope you'll be able to explain how Grade 3 Braille works.
>Thanks.
>
>Sami.
>
>
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