[BRLTTY] Contraction error: Caledonia

[Keith Wessel]

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: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc]On
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
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>

"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
     --Fred Allen


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