finally found out if you get left handed braillie, i emailed them with:

 

dear sir/madam

 

can you please inform me if you stock left handed braillie??

 

many thanks

miss jilly martin.

 

 

and replyed:

 

Unfortunately not. Good luck in your search.

Davey Hulse, CEO

Braille Plus, Inc.

 

 

GUTTED.

 

wtf are you looking up that for?!

cause in twist i went round asking everyone if you got left handed braillie and no-one knew

 

xxxxxx

jilly only you would email a blind company!

what's left-handed braille?

 

alasdair

QUOTE (mistress_hoover @ Feb 28 2004, 00:46)

finally found out if you get left handed braillie, i emailed them with: dear sir/madam can you please inform me if you stock left handed braillie?? many thanks miss jilly martin. and replyed: Unfortunately not. Good luck in your search. Davey Hulse, CEO Braille Plus, Inc. GUTTED.

they probably thought you were taking the piss

but how the heck did a blind person read your email?

 

now that is weird!

he probably wasnt blind, he just worked for the company

that made me

'random'

god, i hate that word.

QUOTE (Louise @ Feb 28 2004, 10:55)

he probably wasnt blind, he just worked for the company

'probably'?

 

I'd love to know how a blind person could possibly read an email...

 

 

great question though jilly.

 

And is braille a universal language? i.e. do Chinese/Japanese people learn exactly the same kind of braille?

 

If not, then there braille will read right to left rather than left to right. Akin to the left-handed braille you are after...

 

Aha- here is the answer:

 

Chinese braille is based on a phonetic representation of the sounds of the language. There are no braille signs for individual Chinese inkprint characters, only for sounds. Here the braille code for Putonghua, the Chinese National Language (sometimes also called Mandarin), is described. However, the same principles apply also other Chinese dialects.

 

As with all other braille codes, Chinese braille is read from left to right - whatever the direction of any inkprint original.

 

As a rule, in the inkprint one syllable is represented by one character. The same syllable in braille is written with one, two or three signs. There are three categories of these braille signs.

 

 

QUOTE (russelldust @ Feb 28 2004, 12:57)

QUOTE (Louise @ Feb 28 2004, 10:55) he probably wasnt blind, he just worked for the company  'probably'?   I'd love to know how a blind person could possibly read an email...     http://mycomputerspeaks.com/

i wonder if the ceo was blind would take ages to type in brailie