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From: Warren.Figueiredo@f6.n3800.z1.fidonet.org (Warren Figueiredo)
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Subject: Re: Reading Rates
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Date: 21 Jun 91 19:11:53 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Sounds like you had good teachers.

I learned braille in first grade and later was taught to read print. I
know what you mean about those short form words.

Brfaille crept into my print note taking habits. People would at my
notes and tell me they couldn't read them because there were dots in
front of letters and even lines. I would use "dot d" for "day" and I
would even draw a little vertical line for the 4-5-6 as in "|w" for
world. It worked OK for me. (grin)

When I taught classes, I would always write my keys in braille so that
I could read the key with one hand and read the student's work
visually.

A little unorthodox but it worked.

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