Hi, Lee, I don't disagree with you that I've seen create all over the place using the ea sign. I do, however, maintain my stance that this is a common braille error. Very common, as you proved with your stats below. However, would you disagree that the use of the EA sign in create violates rule 42 by going over a primary sylable division?
The question becomes do we want to write braille according to the rules or according to the way things are being written commonly despite the rules? Incidentally, I called my parents about this one, too. Mom maintains that EA should not be used in create, while Dad, the previously mentioned expert, says you can use the EA sign. I just looked up the rule... and would appreciate if someone could tell me how the primary sylable boundary rule doesn't apply in this case. Thanks, Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee Maschmeyer Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:06 AM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Contraction error: Caledonia Hello Keith, You think you're a braille nerd? You should have seen the first time I wrote this message! :-) If we accept your contention that the e-a sign in Create is an error, then NLS would have to revise virtually every one of its Web Braille books and presumably at least the vast majority of its hard-copy ones. In fact I just did a scan of my downloaded book collection for "create" spelled out. The collection comprises 124 authors and I don't know how many books. I found seven occurrences. They all came from Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribing and appear in lines in which all other words are also spelled out. Here they are; these must be viewed in computer braille: pebble create middle succotash meddle beginning ,god created the heaven and created a crisis in the ,possum ,hollow #b4 ,since all men are created equal1 .government did not create the .states of this republic4 ,the .states created distingu`e prot`eg`e created a sensation -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a skunk may be somebody's brother." --Fred Allen _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
