Dumb question?

[chezames]

Because I bought a book from The National Braille Press I recieved their latest newsletter. Now, I am just starting in Grade 2 Braille, using "Just Enough To Know Better," so please excuse my ignorance here

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[masterteekack]

You must've missed the dot six; perhaps it was squashed. Anyway n dot six N A L is national since dot six+n in the middle of a word is ation.

James

[chezames]

Oh, I see. I got the dot6, but it looked like it was dot6+n then a space then dot6+n+a+l. But I see now there is no space, which makes it read "National." :-) Thank you, I have a lot to learn!

[kat144]

Aha. That answers the question for me too, because I saw the "ation" abbrieviation a couple places but couldn't find it in "Just Enough to Know Better."

[chezames]

After reading this post I looked in "Just Enough." It's in there, I just hadn't gotten to it yet :-)

[clearwater55]

LOL I hate that when that happens when you have to second guess something in braille.

[chezames]

It's really embarrassing when my Fiance is sitting there and says "What does it say?" and I'm like "Um, well, I don't exactly know," and he says "I thought you were learning Braille!" He just can't grasp that Braille isn't as easy as learning the alphabet, although I have explained it to him! But then again, I'm deaf and try to teach him sme ASL to make things easier and he can't seem to grasp that either ;-)

[kat144]

I picked up a couple of copies of Expectations and Brailleways at the library figuring I could figure them out...yeah right.

So my mom said "Okay, read me a story." "Er, I can't...not the least because I read so slowly...."

[chezames]

*LOL* Yeah, I will voice sometimes to help me and I sound like a first grader reading *LOL*