[bksvol-discuss] Re: British and U.S. spelling of words
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:33:06 -0500
Hi all,
Cindy, you are right that Braille is contracted when books are
published. Braille comes in two basic forms: contracted and
uncontracted. Uncontracted Braille, what we old-timers used to call
Grade I, is a letter for letter transcription of print. this, form, as
you might imagine takes up a lot of space. So, the inventors of Braille
came up with contracted Braille or Grade II. Now, for those of you who
are actual Braille readers, just forget that you know about Grade 1-1/2
or Grade III or Nemeth or Music or Computer Braille. I'm talkin' basics here.
Most books are published in Contracted Braille. This involves several
types of contractions including, whole-word contractions, letter
contractions and so on. For example the letter h by itself stands for
the word have. there are contractions for various letter combinations,
e.g. th, wh, gh, er, ed, ation, ally, tion, and so on. By using these
contractions, Braille is reduced in size.
As for the British spellings, yes, one should be made aware of this so
that one is not startled by surprize VS surprise, center VS centre, and
colour VS color. Speech synthes have no trouble reading this kind of thing.
Ann P.
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