[duxuser] Re: Contracting Across Syllables
- From: "Foxworth, Ann" <Ann.Foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:11:41 -0600
Hi Catherine, if you run across that pesky rule under discussion here,
while poking around in the code book, send it out to all of us.
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Catherine Thomas
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:09 AM
To: duxuser freelists.org
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Contracting Across Syllables
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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