Mary.Otten@p0.f1055.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Mary Otten) (05/31/91)
Index Number: 15919
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
I agreethat, just because a person learns braille, it doesn't mean he's
going to be ableto spell. I'm not the greatest speller. Used to be, but
as Igot away from reading braille except for my own notes, my spelling
went down the tubes. Ispell a lot better in Russian and used to in
German, precisely because I ddid a lot of reading in both languages in
braille. It also helps that both of those languages are truer to their
phonetic rules than is english. I guess the bottom line for me is that
if you've never had a chance to see the written word, so to speak, you
haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of becoming even a halfway
decent speller in the English language, and as for grammar and
punctuation, well, if you have never seen stuff written out, how do you
know what you're supposed to put where?
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