Hi Raul,
your message was quite interesting that you sent to the list,
having said that, I must disagree with you about speech and audio
meaning that people don't often capitalize sentences,
or at least, I think maybe its a factor that makes people less likely to
do it, but I think its also down to quality of education.
I am not sure if you know this, but in the UK braille system, there is
no official rule that says you must capitalize sentences and words using
a dot six, or at least there wasn't when I was growing up.
Having said that, I don't know if this is still correct as I believe
when I finished education the powers that be were considering
introducing this from the American braille code.
Having said that, for most of my life up til the age of 12 I had little
contact at all with computers, towards the end of primary school I did
get the chance to use my first computer, a bbc micro and from then on my
use of computers steadily increased to the point where braille is pretty
much unused in my daily life.
I am pretty good at capitalizing sentences, and words, though I must
admit the spell check is very useful for this, and I do sometimes have
to make a conscious effort when correcting messages before sending them
to think about capitalizing certain words and sentences.
But I always go through and check any e mail before sending it.
What I think is a major factor in blind people being bad spellers is a
combination of things, firstly the use of grade 2 Braille, I think that
my learning this really impacted on my ability to spell correctly as I
don't think I thought as much after learning it about how words should
be spelled, and was thinking more about what contraction should be used
where.
The second thing I think that has impacted on the ability of blind
people to spell is the use of spell check, as I don't know about anyone
else, but normally when I use a spell check I don't stop to listen to
the correct spelling always, though I do try to make an effort to do so
when I have the time.
Another area I am quite bad on is the use of punctuation and paragraphs,
I find it quite hard knowing when to place punctuation, so I probably
use far two much of it, and paragraphs I admit I hardly use unless I
really think about it or someone checks something I have written and
reminds me about them.
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