🚀 go-pugleaf

My original posting was rejected to my provider's having changed our
addresses, and Rick fixed it.  I still wanted to get my last 2 cents
in on the issue as I feel somewhat strongly about it...

  >Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:29:28 +500
  >Granted, we learn to speak the language before attaining
   >literacy--but in an academic or vocational environment literacy is
   >the point.  Most of us who live too long in the "verbal world" of
   >high speed synthesizers we've tweaked to reduce inflection and
   >sussuric (spelling--it fell out of my Organic RAM and I can't find
   >it in my good old worn braille Jones and Plichta Reference Speller)
   >indicators as much as is possible in the name of increased
   >speed/competitive efficiency with our sighted cohorts think in
   >verbal rather than in written syntax.  The two are entirely
   >different animals, and aren't usually viewed as interchangeable.
   >Certainly, I know that without constant immersion in braille, my
   >spelling suffers, (although I claim Grade II braille deficiency
   >disorder).  Having access to periodicals such as Syndicated
   >Columnist Weekly, and PC World keeps our spelling of common
   >news-names, and product names current.  No one can argue the higher
   >level of employment and suitable employment among those of us who
   >have more than one medium of communication at our disposal--braille
   >statistically being the critical medium...  Finally, there is that
   >aesthetic pleasure that comes with cuddling up with a braille book,
   >or reading to/with one's significant other--one of my most
   >cherished memories of my Angel Bride, Margie, with whom I read from
   >the time we first started reading until her death in February...
   >On 1999-04-19 Whersh@aol.com said:
   >>Isn't it true that we learn language and grammar before we learn to
   >>read and write? BEfore we learn the alphabet?
   >W. Nick Dotson/Pensacola, FL
   >My employer doesn't speak for me nor do I speak for him!


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