[nabs-l] Change the Subject Line, Please Re: BANA still considering abolishing the Nemethbraillecode

Sun Sep 11 23:29:41 UTC 2011

I don't mind that this conversation is going on, but it is not what the 
subject line says. If you change the topic inside the message, please change 
the subject line.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 10:31 AM
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
>
> "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: 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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