What I Think Of Unified English Braille
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Katya
Lemuria
TinWhistler
TinWhistler
You know, I wish they could combine the two. I think tat would be nice, eprsonally. For example, having some elements of UEB and some elements of EBAE. But hey, that’s just me. XDDD
Tracey D
I can't speak for my American fellows on this, but all I know is, I started learning EBAE, and somebody instroduced me to UEB out of nowhere, and now I'm stuck between the two... 😂
TinWhistler
Lemuria
Mark Driesenga
Lemuria
Rachel K
TinWhistler
Penny
That's totally fair and understandable. You are correct that it wasn't explained well why we all had to switch to unified English braille, and there are plenty of articles out there if you care to read about it, but to the general Blind person if you don't go and research, you won't necessarily know why.
Mark Driesenga
Penny
So British braille used to not have capitals and I don't understand why because in print, they certainly use capital letters at the beginning of sentences. In 1997 the British authority of braille decided that they actually should use capitals so started to integrate that. Australia had already decided to adopt capitals in something like the 80s because of wanting Blind students to integrate into general classes and understand how print works. It doesn't make sense to have braille be different to print. For example, in American literary braille, why was it OK to have things like and the put together when you don't have that in print. This was not just Americans telling other countries what to do. The international council on English braille. Got together in the early 90s to research their braille codes and realize that they needed to be unified. So then the unified English braille was created in 1994, which then was first adopted by Australia. I guess I am just wondering why people are so against unified English braille when it makes things easier for sending materials over to other English speaking countries and it's all going to be the same. I would understand if somebody just said they didn't like unified English braille because they hate change. I understand that. But whenever I ask people why they don't like unified English braille, they cannot give me a concrete reason and I was just curious. I'm all for trying to understand why people like and dislike certain things and have always wondered why unified English braille was so terrible to people. I actually think it's cool that they have indicators for when words, or letters are italicized or underlined. It makes it easier for us who are reading braille to understand the way the text looks. 
Mark Driesenga
Penny
I have come across so many people who despise UEB and I don't understand. Can you explain why you don't like it? Is it because it's just different to what you've learned? I would like to try and understand why people hate it so much. to me it makes sense to make all English braille the same no matter what country you go to. Just like all print is the same when you go to English speaking countries too. Also, I know it has to do with the computers and making translation from printer braille easier. But I would love to understand why people hate it so much.
Tracey D
Tracey D
Mark Driesenga
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