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- From: Mike.Freeman@f126.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Mike Freeman)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Spanish
- Message-ID: <23853@handicap.news>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:20:30 GMT
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
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- Hi, Bill!
-
- You asked about Spanish contracted Braille. Iused to know it reasonably
- well. You asked whether the whole-word contractions in English were the
- same as those in Spanish. In a word, no. Each language has its own
- whole-word, part-word and sign contractions. I used to read French
- contracted Braille and also German contracted Braille (can still read
- the latter fairly well). Each has its own contractions, though a very
- few are common with those of Standard English Braille.
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- In other words, asside from the alphabet, which is roughly the same, one
- must learn Braille for each language as a separate code, as it were.
-
- Cheers!
-
- Mike
- ... ** "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." -- St. Augustine **
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