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- From: Cindy.Hallenbeck@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Cindy Hallenbeck)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Braille and spelling
- Message-ID: <23791@handicap.news>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:11:56 GMT
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- X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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- Index Number: 23791
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
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- PG> The other day I was doing some editing and I found out that I
- PG> was writing an amount in dollars and not leaving a space
- PG> between the dollar sign and the amount which when you write
- PG> braille you write them together.
- Hi, Pat,
- I am not certain that is true except when you are trying to line up
- columns, but I will have to check it out. I have never written them
- together and I was a transcriber in an insurance company for eight
- years.
-
- PG Also a number of years ago, I
- PG> was trying unsuccessfuly to get my proofreader certificate from
- PG> NLS and believe it or not I subconsciously develloped my own
- PG> short form method for writing some words that weren't correct
- PG> according to the NLS standards.
- That is true of anyone who has ever taken the course. I think for that
- reason it is probably more difficult for a blind person, one who has
- always used braille, to study that transcriber's course because he/she
- must unlearn bad habits. Everyone develops his/her own shorthand
- whether writing print or braille, though, so I guess this should not be
- surprising. I never finished the course, though I started it three
- times. I have gone far enough, though, that I have helped people study
- transcribing and have helped Chuck with rules in Turbo Braille.
-
- 73--Cindy Hallenbeck N0MQO
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