Braille

[Randy]

How do they do it?

Read braille that is? Its just a bunch of bumps on a paper..

I found this: http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Braille but I dont think its that easy.

 

[Nelliel]

It's probably not. But I guess it's like when we learn how to read and write, right? It was hard at first, and when you get the hang of it, it just comes naturally.



I remember reading an article on Braille a couple years ago -- from what I remember, the history of braille was that there were really big bumps on paper and you had to figure out the letters from that, but it got too hard. (I think) And then they made it so there are just different forms of raised bumps per letter and number and symbol I guess.



But like I said, natural. Once you get the hang of it -- it comes naturally, and you can read it just like you're reading a regular book.

Only thing is, you have to read letter for letter and kinda figure that out from there. Where we can just pass over a word like nothing You have to feel for each letter. Must take long to read and write a book in braille. Hm..

 

[Raven]

^ Never knew that. Interesting subject.

 

[Nelliel]

Yeah, each Braille character has 6 dots, and I think the raised ones represent the letters

This is 1 and A, where the bolded dot is the raised one. Try doing this in French XD haha