I can kinda see a sufficiently corner-cutting teacher leaving out the spellings of whole word contractions. Not so much things like tion or ance. Still, spelling tests with no contractions allowed really should be required, if this sort of thing is common.

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I don't remember exactly. However, I know that I didn't know the real spelling of words until I started using the pc.

@enes:
I wouldn't say, that this was an extreme case. I mean, Dragomeer said, he reads 240 words per minute. My girlfriend is a very fast reader too.
I guess, in the end, it all comes down to how you were taught braille. I was in one of those special schools for the blind and visual impaired. We learned it the traditional way, meaning without computers or Braille displays. We had these bulky typewriters and those huge books. There, you didn't have a choice. You had to know how to read. That's why I am glad, that we have Ebooks today. You can just copy them to your display and can carry them with you.

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If braille has any future at all, it is refreshable braille. Paper braille is dead almost. Noone will want to carry around dozens of pounds of books to and from class.
Asault freak, it is the fault of braille, as even if I learned the actual versions of contractions, I forgot what they were over time.

I recall that PACMates cost around $300-400 to build, and the 1000% markup is ... to pay programmers and tech support, I think? And that system doesn't scale well, anyway, since it's a tangled mess of levers and such that have trouble enough with the interior dots on one line.
Sure, the Orbit Reader exists. An effective means of manufacturing units apparently does not, however. I'm sure there's a legit financial or legal reason they can't just build a factory and ... I dunno, one a day? I think one a day would have been enough to start taking orders by now. I don't know the costs and hoop-jumpings involved, though. I know only that this looks precarious, from where I'm slouching. ... And it's still just 20 cells. Can we teach an octopus to read, then translate what it sees to braille? Then you would have a tablet and a pet predatory shape-shifting sea-ninja to protect your home from gar. And, being a service animal, the social media coverage would provide minutes of entertainment!
(... At this point, I'm not sure the Seeing Eye Octopus isn't the best possibility. )

@Enes, I get what you mean when you say that you learnt spelling when you started using your PC to type. One question though, since I've seen that your mother tongue language is Turkkish, for what language does the above statement apply, English or Turkish? I ask this question because I myself learnt the correct spelling of English using my PC most of the time but it was a tough job as I had to check every now and then how a word was written when I hadn't come it across before. Talking about my mother tongue language, all of its spelling I learnt when I had braille books in my hand. We hardly ever used contractions. I also learnt Italian having absolutely no contact with Braille, but I won't do that mistake again if I begin to learn French as I plan to do in the following years.

The multirow [Graphiti] display seems more promising, the more recent video's were posted last august this year so it seems to be making some progress. There's also the [Braigo] printer thats supposed to retail for around 300$, although theres no word on that. I also just remembered [3D Pens] were a thing, basically a hand held 3D printer extruder, so anyone could free hand draw filaments on ordinary paper for things like braille, line graphs, etc. they retail for around 50 to 250$, filaments dirt cheap.

Audio's ubiquitous and easy to deploy but relying on it exclusively has its limitations, especially for say, the deaf blind. I think though that developments and improved access in 3D printing will help Braille evolve and stay relevant, I was actually looking at a bunch of 3D CAD designs for a bunch of braille stuff not long ago, like 20 side braille dice, braille rubix cubes, Braille connect four game sets, etc. A new frontier of things to explore.

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Urm wait, someone talked about ueb in this forum, what the heck is ueb and why is it so bad?
Greetings Moritz.

At Simba: UEB is Unified English Braille, where some shady organizations tried to update English Braille, reduce the need for multiple codes (computer, Literary, Math, etc), and bring the codes from all the different Anglophone countries together. It fails at all of those, except that it does allow people to avoid computer braille. It's also easier for people to write translator software for, and resolves some conflicts that have become issues in the digital age, such as mid-word dots, capitalization, etc.
In practice, the specific changes they went with range from "OK", to "That's kinda unpleasant, but I guess I can get use to it", to "Gah you ruined the past 200 years of embossing!", with a few "Why?"s here and there. I do like some things, like the new asterisk, using the Nemeth dollar sign (although I contend that the literary version saves space), and a few other small things. Some of it I can accept as necessary, if unpleasant. But I think my biggest annoyance is that someone decided to change a written language from above (this might not be a big deal to some people, but I'm from America, so that sort of thing feels wrong), and that it's optimized for the internet and (large) braille displays, effectively throwing literature under the bus. And, since my display is 20 cells, I occasionally stop and calculate how much space is saved or lost between US grade 2, UEB, and US grade 1, and UEB usually loses. (Not always, but Enough to make the difference. And yes, I believe that every cell saved counts, especially when you're dealing with paper or tiny displays, which will be the case until someone innovates on the hardware side and goes to market).
Some of the "why?"s: parentheses and brackets (why didn't they go with Nemeth? Does this make more sense in the UK?), dropping o'clock (what was the point of that? Do people right "o'c" more than "o'clock" enough that it was a problem?), removing multiword contractions (what, did someone name a character in their unpublished novel "Tothe" or "Andfora", and happened to know the right people?), and while I get dropping suffix -bled, I haven't seen enough code that ends in #, #s, or #r to justify removing other -ble suffixes. I specify suffix only because Reddit does use #s in spoiler tags, but that's a wholeword.
Annoying but understandable: dropping ation, ally, dd, and to*. Personally, I would have pointed out that mid-word capital N and Y are less common than ation and ally, and you can just add 56 to distinguish them, but apparently that's too complicated and translation software devs are probably grossly underpaid. I feel like the reason we didn't use 256 for every period in every context still applies—the sentence-ending version only works at the end of a sentence. Using it as a decimal point is especially hideous. The point of the decimal is to unobtrusively separate the numbers, and 256 does not do that as well as 46, or 3, or 6, or almost anything other than letters and dropped letters. It's a tiny bracket! And dropped d being d-related makes sense; a tiny bracket functioning like a dot would visually does not.
Things I just don't like but can't come up with solutions for: diacritics. Great Gatsby, UEB accents are hideous. They make single letters take up 3 whole spaces. Distinguishing bold, italic, and underline is good (I don't remember strikethrough being in there, and it should be), but the way they did it is distracting.
Things I like: *, bullets (I'm typing in US, and can't create bullets), sword, sphere, caps lock (sorta; the conflict with elipses is kinda annoying, and the UEB elipsis is an abomination), smother, finally clarifying @, making it possible to include < and > without using platform-specific escape characters (so dot 4 ), and I think there are a couple others I'm not remembering ATM.
But again, the most annoying part is that it's being pushed on everyone and makes anything embossed prior to 2008-2014 a confusing mess to new readers, and that it calls itself Unified when it very clearly prioritizes URLs, email addresses, and being able to code with contractions, over more common uses.