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

[Carly]

Oh, a palid means of expression?At 11:27 AM 9/11/2011, you wrote:
>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
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>
>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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