[nfb-talk] A Comment On Braille

[Constance Canode]

Hi all,

Hoping somebody can help me out with a small I-phone issue.  I send 
email out on the phone and realized that my last name is misspelled, 
so it says sent from my I-phone with two letters wrong in my name.  I 
looked around and can't find where or how to change it.  Can anyone 
help?  I feel like an idiot who can't spell her own last name properly, lol.

onnie Canode

At 09:44 PM 6/20/2012, you wrote:
>Amen.
>
>However, the old saw about the harmfulness of texting to spelling is
>interesting. David Crystal (a linguist) in his book "A Little Book of
>Language", available from BARD, maintains that in order to text well, one
>has to know how to spell well first, else much of the humor of texting goes
>unrecognized.
>
>That doesn't take away from Buddy's message, however.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:24 AM
>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] A Comment On Braille
>
>Very well stated. Thank you, Buddy, for a great defense of Braille!
>
>Chris Nusbaum
>
>Sent from my iPod
>
>On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name> wrote:
>
> > Perkins just asked in an Email they sent out if braille is still relent in
>a high tech world. They said the answer was a resounding yes, as it should
>be, but here's my response, which i sent to perkins and posted to my blog:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > First, do I love my Perkins brailler? Of course I do.
> >
> > I don't really want to talk about that, though. Rather, I want to address
>the question you ask: is braille still relevant in a technological world? Of
>course you got the answer, and, in my view, the correct one, but what
>disturbs me is that the question was even asked in thee first place. It is,
>I think, the wrong question. In short, what happens if you replace the word
>"Braille" with the word "Print"? Does the question change? Does the
>relevance of the medium change? Does the answer change? What about the
>perceptions of the question--do those change?
> >
> > A couple weeks ago, I was a fill-in host on the Serotek podcast, where we
>discussed an article about the decline in spelling skills among today's
>youth. However, I didn't take away what was probably the intended message of
>the article. I took away a double standard. Now that it's sighted children
>who use print and are losing the ability to spell, form proper sentences,
>and so on, we have a tragedy, and our electronics-centric lifestyle is to
>blame. Think of texting as the most often blamed culprit. Yet, where was
>this outcry for our blind kids 20 years ago, when, as now, we are told that
>talking computers and recorded textbooks are good enough? Double standard
>much? Why is it, do you suppose, that learning to read print and having
>access to print is essential to teach sighted children the fundamentals of
>grammar, spelling, and punctuation, but such skills are adequately taught to
>our blind kids with talking computers and recorded textbooks? Or, is it that
>our blind kids and
>   their skills and abilities in these areas just aren't important enough to
>give the same amount of attention or priority? Why is, pulling a number out
>of the air here, a 10% illiteracy rate among the sighted a national tragedy,
>yet a 10% literacy rate among the blind acceptable?
> >
> > If you get that I'm angry, you're right. I am absolutely livid. This is
>only one example of this double standard where blind and sighted people are
>concerned. The thing is, it's a huge example, and it doesn't even seem as
>though we ourselves always recognize it for what it is, because we ask
>things like, "Is braille still relevant". So long as literacy is relevant to
>gainful employment, career advancement, educational opportunities, and all
>the other things life has to offer, the answer should be obvious.
> >
> > So, as I said, you're asking the wrong question. There are probably a lot
>of "right" questions, but the one that comes to my mind, putting aside the
>"Why is this double standard acceptable" question, is, "How do we get
>braille into the hands of more kids and get more of our kids learning it,
>and more of our teachers teaching it"? Let's start there; there's much, much
>more that we should be asking as follow-ups to that.
> >
> > Parenthetically, I note that the word "brailler" was flagged by my spell
>checker. Moreover, it was autocorrected to "broiler". That speaks volumes.
> > --
> > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> > Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
> >
> >
> >
> >
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