Advantages of a Seeing Person Knowing Braille?
 

I was thinking about this yesterday. It seems like learning Braille would require a minimal commitment.

There could be some possibly +EV possibilities that are created by the ability to read without seeing the book or whatever.

These are a few I've come up with:

1. Being able to read without light for whatever reason (power out etc).
2. Having notes during an exam without being in plain sight.

The upsides are probably not very practical or worth the effort, but it are there any possibilities that are being overlooked?

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Learning sign language is much more practical.

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The white stick could look pretty cool.

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both your points are dumb.

it would be pretty cool to be at a museum with someone who was unaware of your talent and then nonchalantly perform. or even turn it into a big thing and pretend you're guessing and nail it.

but thats like a once every few years type of scenario

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I think this would be much harder for a seeing person to learn than a blind person.

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it would be pretty cool to be at a museum with someone who was unaware of your talent and then nonchalantly perform. or even turn it into a big thing and pretend you're guessing and nail it.

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yeah, either this or espionage

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You can figure out what all those blind [censored] are writing about you to each other at the grocery store.

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You could text-message while playing pocket pool like the guy in "The Departed."

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You could text-message while playing pocket pool like the guy in "The Departed."

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I don't think this has anything to do with Braille.

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I have heard that there is no sighted person able to read Braille fluently. I can't think of any advantages.

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I can't think of any advantage.

The elevator here at work has the floor numbers in Braille, and even after all these years of going up and down this elevator, I still cant figure out how those little dots work. There doesnt seem to be any obvious pattern to em.

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If you ever came across an ATM where the numbers were worn off the keypad but the Braille bumps weren't... man that'd be awesome. I mean you could probably get all the numbers and such right still, as long as you could decipher the enter and cancel button. But wouldn't it be awesome to know for sure which button is which!?!

That's all I can come up with. TR when this happens please.

EDIT: Obviously elevators too, as the previous poster mentioned. Or let's say you're at an ATM or in an elevator and one of the following happens:
1- Terrorist throws acid in your eyes
2- Solar eclipse (ATM) Light burns out (Elevator/Indoor ATM)
3- Syphilis-induced blindness
4- Contacts fall out
5- Just too lazy to open eyes

Man, the list just keeps going I guess.

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The only advantages I can see involve you becoming blind. Waste your time learning something useful, finnish for example?

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both your points are dumb.

it would be pretty cool to be at a museum with someone who was unaware of your talent and then nonchalantly perform. or even turn it into a big thing and pretend you're guessing and nail it.

but thats like a once every few years type of scenario

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Chuck Norris can speak Braille.

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You could text-message while playing pocket pool like the guy in "The Departed."

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I don't think this has anything to do with Braille.

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It does if you have a braille phone

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double-checking elevator numbers? you can never be too sure when youre in an elevator.

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I have heard that there is no sighted person able to read Braille fluently.

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Probably because no sighted person is dumb enough to put in that amount of time learning to read it fluently.

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

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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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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I have a student who is blind in the Math 12 course I teach. she braille's out everything and of course I cant mark it. So it gets sent to a person that reads braille through sight and not their fingers. This person copies out what the person wrote in pencil so I can mark it.

So if you could read braille, one benefit would be you could have a job doing this.

rJ_

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infinitely better use of time:
learn to type in dvorak
aoeuhtns

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I can think of one obvious disadvantage - they couldn't tell you that this thread blows.

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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?

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More than half of blind people don't know braille. It is a dying language (due to screenreading software, audio books, etc.) and doesn't seem like a good investment of time for a sighted person.

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you can pick up blind chicks?