[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille, on different notes than before

Sun Aug 6 17:52:45 UTC 2017

Bernice, I feel your pain house wise. Praying we both get unpacked enough
to have happy holidays.
Cindy

On August 5, 2017 7:55:49 PM Bernice via Nfb-krafters-korner
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> I haven't been reading emails much and today I had over 400 unread emails
> on this email address.  I am still getting settled into this house.  It has
> been an unimaginable nightmare which I will talk about at another time.  In
> a simple sentence, I bought the wrong house, and there is enough blame to
> go around to everybody involved.
>
> On to Braille.  I read large print and went to a public school until second
> grade.  I went to the school for the blind in second grade and was taught
> braille which I have read and used daily ever since.  I learned the
> alphabet on a peg board that was divided into groups of six dots for
> individual letters.
>
> I didn't read braille for enjoyment until highschool.  I discovered talking
> books in sixth grade, but didn't enjoy braille.  We were required to use it
> for all school work, so I became proficient before highschool, but I didn't
> like it.
>
> I used to read to my sister after lights out at night.  My mother would
> come in saying, "I told you to turn off the light."  Of course the light
> was out.
>
> I took piano, pipe organ, and cello lessons and read braille music for that
> and choir music.
>
> I find braille essential when I am learning something scientific or
> technical.  I am also a visual learner.
>
> I use my Braille Note every single day all day at work.  Needless to say, I
> couldn't do my job without it.  I am much faster searching my braille note
> for resource info than using the lap top.
>
> I prefer to have craft instructions as a hard paper copy.  I have tried to
> use my bralle note for instructions, but It just isn't comfortable and
> efficient.
>
> Every week, my son-in-law downloads that week's church bulletin and I put
> it on my braille note so I can participate fully in the service.
>
> I love playing cards and board games, so braille lets me to that also.
>
> I hate unified braille code.  I also think it put so much extraneous stuff
> in the way.  Elliminating contractions has made reading aggravating.  Did
> they think we were to stupid to figure out that dots two and three means
> different things depending on the context?
>
> The arthritis in my hands and shoulders makes reading large volumes of
> braille difficult, but for the smaller things I use it all of the time.
>
>
> I'm going to work on getting some of the emails caught up after unpacking
> quite a few boxes today.
>
> Bernice and the sweet Octane.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Nella Foster via Nfb-krafters-korner
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 2:42 AM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists' <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Nella Foster <jellybeanfarm at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille, on different notes than before
>
>
> Sandra, like you, I'm a visual learner and I really need to see something's
> in Braille before I can learn it.
>
> People think it's funny when I say I'm a visual learner, but it's true.  I
> need to do it first or be able to really check it out before I can learn it.
>
> I love that you're using Braille in so many ways.
>
> Nella
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Sandra Streeter via Nfb-krafters-korner
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 8:45 AM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Sandra Streeter
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille, on different notes than before
>
> Hi,
>
> Since I missed reading yesterday’s submissions, I hope it’s okay to
> continue with thoughts on Braille. As I just said, I am decidedly anti-UEB
> and have been since they did some surveys years prior to rolling out the
> new system. I have cancelled one Braille mag because of my frustration with
> it. Some of the new contractions make it harder for me to pronounce the
> words (e.g., r, ed, u, c, tion, gets pronounced “red duction” in my brain).
> Despite the supposed space-savings, I am finding a lot of clutter that a
> literary Braille user like me just doesn’t need to see. I wish that there
> had been two systems: one for academic work (in which you really do, often,
> need to see things like underline and bolding, if you’re doing a paper for
> instance), and one for those just wanting to have Braille for personal
> uses, like what I’m about to list:
>
>
> I had it easy, since I am blind due to severe ROP and there was no choice
> but to learn Braille for me prior to all the audio tech options today:
> So, these are the spheres in which I use Braille, on a daily basis, really:
>
>
> * All my CDs, DVDs and NLS cartridges are labeled. I live alone, and even
> if not, wouldn’t choose to constantly check in with a sighted partner about
> what a given item is.
>
> * Kitchen products, food items (once run through my ID Mate), cleaning
> stuff? All labeled!
>
> * Perfumes, other health and beauty items, Braille labeled;
>
> * Appliance labels
>
> * Index cards for various oral presentations on blindness, eating disorders
> and poetry; handouts for said presentations, Braille-labeled at the bottom
> for easy distribution; Braille hardcopies of handouts also used.
>
> * Notes for mastering new equipment—Brailled again;
>
> * Recipes
>
> * Craft patterns (either found commercially or transcribed from a recording
> from a borrowed Braille copy or someone’s print copy being read aloud);
> also, any mathematical conversions for sizing that need to happen—I’m a
> very visual learner, so just doing it on an audio calc doesn’t work well.
>
> * French language materials—two very large goals, to read “Les Mis” in its
> original language, and to write an entire poem in French
>
> * Directions for a travel route;
>
> * Notes to self—from phone calls, conversations, etc;
>
> * Phone #s and addresses—just getting them off a notetaker doesn’t work for
> me, since I’m a very visual learner
>
> * Old mail—Braille labeled after scanning or meeting with live reader;
>
> * Braille music scores for church choir and for Mystic River Chorale—no
> notation (I found Braille music too tedious, so devised a system of raised
> markings to help with the trickier aspects of mastering music);
>
> * Braille Bible—especially useful for liturgist activities;
>
> * favorite poetry in Braille—though I had to transcribe it from audio
> because unavailable in commercial formats;
>
> * My own poetry—all Brailled, either initially, or if I’m up for a
> challenge and want to try writing something via computer first, transcribed
> later;
>
> * Braille mags—at this point, several devotionals, “Dialogue” and “Poetry”,
> and several newsletters.
>
> * Once in a great while,  Braille books—especially for reading aloud, or
> mastering anything I have to really study; audio okay for leisure reading,
> but not for study;
>
> * Short grocery lists too small to bother printing out;
>
> I think I about covered everything.
>
>
>
>
> Sandra
>
> One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar.
> (Helen Keller)
>
>
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