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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Subject: Re: Braille Transcription Poletics
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Date: 30 May 91 20:35:09 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 SG> Mary, you have an excellent point in reference to the advantages of using
 SG> braille. I can't mention any names, but I know someone who is in high
 SG> school and can't spell.

I know one who graduated from college, and can't spell worth
anything, and he used braille.

I will mention a name.  That is me.  If you don't believe it, just
ask my daughter.  I have used braille all of my life, and think
that braille is the thing, but if I had any spelling knowlege at
all, it was braille in college that finished it off for me.  Trying
to take braille notes in class as fast as you can go, you have to
make up your own shorthand, and that can ruin ones spelling.  An
example, if I had to write down motor in college notes, I would
have put mtr, and when it came time to put the vowels back in well,
when I was playing annagrams one day, they would not let me spell m
o t e r as a word.  Oh, well, that's the way it goes.

       Walter

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