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- From: Carla.Campbell@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Spanish
- Message-ID: <23417@handicap.news>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:09:36 GMT
- Sender: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com
- Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
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- X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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- Index Number: 23417
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
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- BB> you know if most of the grade two braille contractions mean the
- BB> equivalent word in other languages, such as Spanish?
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- No, they do not. The grade 2 contractions are used differently in
- different languages, representing the most commonly-used character
- combinations and words, as they (mostly) do in English. There would be
- little use, for example, in "wasting" a symbol on a letter combination
- which is not used in a language. Also, since many of the whole-word
- symbols (there's a word for those... waht is it?) do not start with the
- same letter in other languages, they would not "make sense" if they
- meant the same thing in those languages. ("Gd", for example, would not
- make a lot of sense as the abbreviation for "bien.") Some of the grade
- 2 symbols stand for accented letters when six-dot Braille is used (in
- eight-dot Braille, these characters are handled differently.)
-
- ... Read what I mean, not what I write!
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