I seriously do not understand the difference between UEB and whatever I learned when I was little. I’ve been working with it for days now and nothing looks any different.
@evilcookies98 There are several contractions that are no longer the. The dots 5-6+Y and the Dot six+Y are two of those. The words and the are no longer place becide each other in adjoining cells, etc.-T
@VE3RWJ i’ve been reading it for years, but I wasn’t allowed to ride it in school because my translator was too lazy to take the extra time to learn it. My hands did not like me in those days.
@evilcookies98 So there are no longer any times where omitting spaces between words is allowed, the com, by, to, ble, and dd contractions are gone, along with things like the o'clock one to list a few things.
@dhamlinmusic I tried to use one of those a couple of days ago and could not figure out why it wouldn’t work. Thank you for enlightening me. As for the spaces thing, thank God. That was annoying, especially while in the I’m still learning phase.
@Lino_JR@dhamlinmusic I understand why they did it though. Those are also punctuation symbols that are commonly used and confused the crap out of people.
@evilcookies98 I was there when they got rid of the old Braille code. At the very meeting where the voting took place. It isn't that different but by God when I was a kid, it really pissed me off.
@rooktallon I wasn’t so much mad as I was a little freaked about having to possibly relearn absolutely everything. It’s easy enough to learn to read when you’re five, but being forced to relearn it a bunch of years later would not be fun.
@evilcookies98 It was hilarious I competed in the Braille Challenge as a kid twice without studying the Braille Code at all. First time, I got 3rd place in my region, second time, I won it.
@rooktallon I just thought it was fun. One year I didn’t even show up and they accidentally sent me a certificate anyway, so I tell people I got a certificate for doing nothing.
@ratking oh? Must be some that didn’t get used a lot because I haven’t seen anything. I can read fine, but my typing is rusty and that bothers me. That should not have been allowed to happen.
@ratking@evilcookies98 I don't know anything about UEB, as I always set anything to grade 2 Braille. I am too old to learn a new Braille thing, hell, I have a hard enough time reading grade 2, and I am even slower with grade 1. this dog is too old, and cranky to teach a new trick like learning UEB Braille.
@ratking I guess my problem is I’ve been typing almost exclusively on a regular keyboard for a lot of years now because Braille displays are absurdly expensive
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