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Regarding your first question, they probably shared the responsibility with
frustrated old men who couldn't cut the mustard any more (grin).
I don't remember school books of that vintage, as I was born in '49, but I
do have some other books dated around that period of time. I too hate
British Braille and wish they would just leave it alone. I see so many
young people using computers and recorders instead of Braille any more, it's
pathetic!
Jackie Shepherd
AF7KG
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From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: UEB
>I have always thought that the Braille rules were made by frustrated old
> ladies who haven't had sex in thirty years or more.
> Who else would make up the arcane rules we live with.
> I am glad that I make most of my own Braille, but I hope all of the lovely
> books we can still get, won't be thrown out and replaced with some
> universal
> code that will be unreadable universally.
> I even struggle with British Braille. I keep looking for the capitol
> letters.
> When I was in school, we still had books produced by the WPA. Now imagine
> that, history under your fingers. Those books were 40 years old, made
> before the Perkiness, and made by people who would have been abandoning
> their families and living as Hobo's, if not for President Roosevelt's
> programs and the new deal.
> I wonder if any of those books are still around?
>
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