[duxuser] Re: Contracting Across Syllables
- From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "duxuser freelists.org" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:08:36 -0500 (EST)
As a braille reader, every time I come to words like permeate, create, or
Seattle where the ea contraction has been used I do a mental double-take.
The pronunciation is just wrong. I also think of school kids or
older people just learning braille trying to
figure out what a word actually is and being mesled by this kind of thing.
"cre-ate" looks like "crete" (the Greek island), :re-ality" looks like
"real-ity", Seattle" looks like "seetle" and on and on it goes.
The braille code is a dynamic thing. In cases where it needs special rules
to prop up its exceptions, the exception is what would require a second
look.
Just for laughs I'm going to look at the Problem Words section of the
instruction manual and count how many words have to be included simply
because of the ea contraction.
Catherine
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