Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

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f*ck blind people if they can't see that's between them and god, only pinko commies read braille

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You wouldn't be saying that if you were blind.

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srsly tho... i cannot imagine a more thoroughly unpleasant way to waste sick amounts of time than learning braile. why not learn something useful? read some physics books or something ffs

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But if he finds enjoyment in it, then it's not useless, correct?

Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

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srsly tho... i cannot imagine a more thoroughly unpleasant way to waste sick amounts of time than learning braile. why not learn something useful? read some physics books or something ffs

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But if he finds enjoyment in it, then it's not useless, correct?

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yeah whatever floats his boat, i just can't imagine that being enjoyable. obviously if you just love learning braille, go right ahead though lol, no skin off anyone else's back.

Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

Can anyone explain to me why braille isn't just raised lettering? Why the dots?

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Can anyone explain to me why braille isn't just raised lettering? Why the dots?

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I imagine because raised dots would be an awful lot easier to recognize than raised letters.

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heh i just read up on braille and it really doesnt seem like it would be anywhere near as hard as i imagined. i didn't really know anything about it. neat system.

Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

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Can anyone explain to me why braille isn't just raised lettering? Why the dots?

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I imagine because raised dots would be an awful lot easier to recognize than raised letters.

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I don't agree. I don't have proof, but I don't see how it would be any more difficult. I mean each letter has a pretty distinctive shape.

Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

I swear I've heard somewhere that people can read in braille faster then normal reading. I think I remember hearing this when I was like 10 though, so there's a decent chance I remember wrong/ it's bs.

Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

1. Instead of having to keep braille magazines and books around just for those two times a year when the power is out at night...buy a flashlight?

2. Study for the test instead of studying braille?

Re: Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

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Learning sign language is much more practical.

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I was under the impression that lip reading was.

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It is much simpler to "print" raised dots.