Well I use Braille and still can't spell. Mary Ellen Earls Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] braillenote pk
> At the risk of opening a huge can of worms, I'll say this. I read many > messages from many mailing lists pertaining to blindness products. One > thing that astounds me is the unbelievable spelling that one sees on > these lists. Some write with no punctuation, some simply grossly > misspell words. > I am not singling out any particular list, or any particular > individuals. I would be willing to bet, however, that the folks who are > having the most difficult time spelling are people who read everything > on tape or with speech and never learned Braille. > Note, I do not include those for whom English is a second language. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Fenton > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 4:24 PM > To: Braillenote List > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braillenote pk > > > The day when most Braille material will exist in digital form may not be > far > off, Terri. Personally, while I know Braille and have no regrets of > learning it at a young age, I realized early on that very few books, > with > perhaps the exception of Math material, would be available to me in > Braille, > nor would I find it convenient if they were because of Braille's typical > > bulk. Of course, I still use it for label identification, but much less > so > for pleasure reading. Thus, I learned to comprehend speech synthesis at > a > rapid rate and read books in Braille less and less, as more titles were > available on tape, and now in ebook format, than have ever been > available in > Braille. > > Perhaps this will be a controvercial statement, but I've long believed > that, > for Braille to continue to be a viable medium in the 21st century, it > would > have to be updated with the times in the form of an affordable Braille > display. While many purists will never let go of hardbound Braille > books, > there's no comparison when a 1gb compact flash card can hold more than > one > thousand Braille books, including such large titles as War and Peace and > > Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, both around 1.5 megabytes in > size > and God knows how many Braille volumes. To be fair, though, when > evaluating > the BrailleNote in February of this year, it was refreshing to see a > crisp > Braille display and to have the option of reading either with speech or > Braille. Finally, with the order and hopefully short arrival of a > 32-cell > BrailleNote QT, I'll hopefully have the best of both worlds. > > Regards, > > Chad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terri Pannett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 4:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braillenote pk > > > Dear Susie, > > I use my BN at rehearsals and then emboss the music and use a music > stand > during the church service. > > But if my embosser broke down, I would have to use my BN one way or > another. > > The BN PK cannot emboss and that was my original point. If a person > never > needs to emboss anything on paper, then the BN PK would suit their > needs. > But if they want to emboss something, and they don't have a PC, they're > stuck. > > I would like to see the day when 90/5 of braille material is digital and > no > paper is used. As it is, the BN has changed my life because I emboss > very > little. > > Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign > AAT9PX, > California > > Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign > AAT9PX, > California > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
