Category: Daily Living
Hi. I'm not sure if this is in the appropriate category so I'll apologize in advance if it is. I was just curious to know if someone can tell me if there's a Braille contraction for the word, "this". I hardly ever use Braille anymore and I haven't been able to find a site online that has a list of all the Braille contractions, believe it or not. Thanks for whoever can help.
Yes; the Braille contraction for the word "this" is: dots 1 4 5 6.
For future reference, try this link:
http://www.duxburysystems.com/braillechart.asp
I just Googled Braille contractions, and there it was.
Becky
A dot 5 before the contraction for "this" will make it "through," and dots 4 and 5 before that same contraction spells "those." You can also use the th sign [dots 1, 4, 5, and 6] for words such as both and wrath.
http://www.brl.org/refdesk/conlookup.html
also, the above link is great in a pinch. Not UEB, though.
Excellent. I will certainly find that site useful.
Other than doing away with dot 6 n for a-t-i-o-n, anyone know what else UEB has changed in terms of uncontracted braille?
sorry, contracted Braille. I've had a very long day. lol and its not quite over yet.
The double d contraction is gone. So is the one for the word was.
I think d I s is also.
It doesn't change how you read, you just notice that things aren't contracted anymore, and that the separation between compound words doesn't exist, i'm trying to think of an example but where in Grade II you don't contract because you don't join a compound word with a contraction. Bighearted, let's say. Grade II would not contract the g h in that situation because it's a compound word, but UEB would go ahead and contract.
I'm just a user not a teacher or transcriber or anything so one of those would be the better person to describe this.
I also read somewhere that words such as, and, for, with, the, a, of, those particular words you could use without incirting a space between them.
I'm not familiar with UEB, since I haven't realy read braille in at least 16 years.
I'm familiar with what they use to refer to as grade 2 british braille, which is what we use to use hear in australia.
Knowing that code, it wasn't that hard to read the code from the US.
I believe they use to leave out the dot 6 for capital letters.
It was just assumed there was a capital at the beginning of the sentence.
I suppose it made sense, no need to use an extra cell.
Braille takes up enough space as it is.
Yes, the words:
and
for
the
with
by
of
can all be combined.
You also have the contraction fort the word to (that's t o, for voice users), and so you can get:
into the
as a three word contraction.
or
and for the
among other things.
They're combined in grade 2 braille, I don't think they're combined in regular print.
I'm guessing that's one of the reasons for UEB?
The dropped contractions are the signs for: COM, BLE, ALLY, ATION, o'clock, by, and there are others. This link provides an overview of changes.