[nfb-talk] A Comment On Braille

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Thu Jun 21 03:51:21 UTC 2012 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Constance Canode
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:50 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] A Comment On Braille

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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