[nfb-talk] A Comment On Braille

Constance Canode satin-bear at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jun 21 04:27:43 UTC 2012


Thanks Mike.

Connie
At 10:51 PM 6/20/2012, you wrote:
>Look under Settings, email, signature. You can edit your signature and all
>will be well.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----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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