Don’t forget IPA. I have an article on IPA and how it is done in braille. I hope that won’t change should I need to one day do IPA in braille. For those that want to know what IPA is look up the international phonetic alphabet. It has helped my own diction a lot.
Tc all. On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding of the english vs. american braille is that your system uses > the first possible contraction, regardless of where it falls in the word. > So, as you said, appear would have the ea symbol, followed by the r. > American braille doesn't break up sylabols, (though that doesn't hold in your > example) but we'd use the ar symbol as you pointed out. > Unfortunately, I'm coming up blank on examples of english vs american braille > for cross sylable splits, but I do remember seeing them when I read a book > written in english braille many many years ago, and it confused me quite a > bit until I got used to it. :) > I haven't read the specs for this universal braille yet, so can't comment on > how it's doing things, but my understanding was that they wanted a single > code to replace all the various systems, computer, nemeth, english, american, > and foreign languages. I'm not sure they've managed to cover all of those > basis, especially since the whole computer braille code was specifically > designed to be an exact 1 for 1 match for the ascii character set, and nemeth > has it's own way of doing things, but if they've managed to pull it off, I'd > be surprised. Are they planning next to unify the written alphabet as well, > so russian, chineese, arabic and african languages all use the same set of > symbols? It's silly to contemplate such a thing, because each language has > symbols denoting sounds in that particular language. I submit braille codes > served the same purpose, and except for the english vs american codes, I > don't understand how they plan to squeeze all the others into a single > unified code. It's specifically because each code was designed for something > different that made them the way they were, and throwing that all away, just > because someone somewhere didn't like learning different codes seems silly to > me, but then again, except for a short survey I participated in a couple > years ago, nobody asked my opinion about it all, so what's a person to do? > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
