Good job. Thanks for the help. Didn't think of all of that.
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From: "Rusty Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:31 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] need help with pronounciation
Hi Dean,
I understand that this is a Duxburry issue so really this is just an
academic argument. I fully acknowledge that I am not a Braille expert. I
have only the knowledge of Braille which thirty or so years of its use can
bring, but, to my way of thinking, grimmediate really isn't correct.
When we see the word "grab" we don't hear "grabout." When we see the word
"zip" we don't hear the word "asip." "ag" stands for "again," but when we
see "drag" or "rag" the words are pronounced correctly.
I may be wrong, but this is it seems a problem with the Duxburry software
which doesn't seem like a correct translation. At best, this is a querk in
the Braille code.
It seems that the software recognizeswords where the expantion of a grade
two contraction is not desired. It was not taught that Grimm might be a
real
last name, and thus it thinks that it is a word which doesn't exist in
English so it thinks it should expand the contraction it finds there.
I know, all academic, but interesting to note anyway.
Every now and again these things crop up in a translated file.
Rusty
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Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [Braillenote] need help with pronounciation
Hello Terry,
The discrepancy is being seen due to the way that Duxbury is choosing to
translate this word, which technically speaking, is correct.
A work around is to put grimmediate (as a word), into the pronunciation
dictionary and type grimm for the misspelling.
Regards,
Dean Jackson
Humanware
Christchurch
New Zealand.
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From: "Terry Olandese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 4:00 AM
Subject: [Braillenote] need help with pronounciation
Hello. My name is Terry and i have a quick question. I am reading a book
that i downloaded from bookshare. The book is about the Fantastic four.
One
of the characters in the book is named Ben Grimm. His last name is spelled
g
r i m m. As you know the i m m in braille stands for immediate, so, the
braille note is pronouncing the last name as grimmediate. This is
disturbing
to me. Any help to clear up this problem would be appreciated. Thanks.
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