My Grandmother learned braille during world war one. She was 10 and wanted to help vets blinded during the war by mustard gas. She parlayed that into a career at the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown Massachusetts where she worked most of her working days.
Learned how to read braille when I was in the third grade. Had to do something when my vision got to strained to see large printed words. Glad I did, changed my life.
Dusty Bragg I started learning braille when I was three. My farthest back memory is playing with my Perkins Brailer which I still have. Braille makes reading so much easier! Even though I can read braille, it wasn't really encouraged in my house, so I didn't really use it a lot until I was an adult. I had this realization that, "holy shit Braille is so much easier! Why don't you use that instead?!" And so I did. I mean, I still listen to things all the time too, but my god Braille is easier! It connects so much more with my memory than listening to things. I got a B on a history test because I use that to study instead of listening to all of my notes. I also remember books and stuff a lot better if I read them myself too. I love a great audiobook, but there's nothing to actually reading it yourself. What about you? Agree? What's your experience?
ZeldaWolf2000 I think there must be something to that because I have exactly the same experience with sight reading material as opposed to just listening to it. I take in and remember the content much better when reading and even better still if I read it from a paper page (book) that I’m holding or touching than from only looking at a computer screen
ZeldaWolf2000 I still prefer audiobooks, especially when it comes the work of fiction. Some of those audiobooks today, have a great voice actors, and sound effects. Still I make plenty of written notes in braille. Honey do list, groceries, and reminders etc. and my wife, who is sited, has put braille labels on all of the kitchen, and laundry room, appliances. I'm no gourmet, but I'm pretty handy with a toaster, and crock pot. Hahaha
Dusty Bragg Yeah. Audiobooks today, especially from Audible, have really good readers. I especially like ones with sound effects, and/or that are rated by the reader. So cool! I just wish they weren't so expensive. Along with those though, I am a member of Bookshare, and I've started using this app connected to it called voice dream reader which is amazing! It's made for blind and Dyslexic people, and it works perfectly! I mean, it could use some improvement in the features, but it never crashes it, the voices are great, they don't sound computerized which is amazing, and it works perfectly with my display. Also, because there is only one programmer, he actually gives a shit! The thing with my display I found annoying, I emailed him about it, and one month later it was fixed! Now it's one of my favorite apps! I've never had that happen before. Usually, developers don't care about people with disabilities, because were such low profit to them, so to have someone who made this app for us, and cares enough about this one little issue to fix it within a month, just amazes me. Also, with this app combined with Bookshare, all books are free! I mean, it's in the hundred dollar fee for a year, and the app cost 15 bucks, but if you read a lot, totally worth it! I use it for school and leisure reading, because Bookshare has quite a large library. I would definitely, if you're interested, getting a membership, and buying voice dream. Great combination. Bookshare.com btw.
I've been living for several years on rue Louis Braille in Paris. Every time I had to give my address, I felt very proud; sometimes just for the fact of having the opportunity to introduce this extraordinary guy to those who had never heard about him...
You have just been putting out amazing videos with correct, correct information about blind people. Thank you. I am visually impaired and I appreciate this. You really do your homework.
At a municipal airport in St. Pete, Florida, they mounted a Braille sign at the entrance to the pilots' parking lot. I often wondered how much that cost and who forced them to do it.
@UCk-K6MjBzBwg44ir_Dacl8Q Some people's comments are best ignored. I always assumed the braille on ATM buttons was a manufacturing choice. Rather than making a special non-braille batch for drive-throughs, just make them all the same, save time and money.
Ah yes, Generation 3. Regirock, Regice, Registeel...easily missed if you don't look everywhere. Very fond memories. Of frustration and triumph (getting these Pokémon is never easy lol)
Can I just say that I heavily appreciate the fact that the title of the video is a question, and in the first 10 seconds of the video, you answer that question
thanks it just hit me in the middle of the video that the braille is 6x6 tiles and that makes the 26 letters of the alphabet plus the punctuation, i really did learn somthing today=)
As a person who is legally blind. Thank you fir putting this video out. Although I don’t use Braille this gives the general public a glimpse of what learning/reading is like fir blind people .
Forgot to mention in my last comment, but another thing that was wrong with night writing was that he didn't use letters. It was all about sounds, so someone without prior knowledge of the written word, couldn't learn it from that system. That was another thing Louis tried, and succeeded, in creating, a system of reading and writing that actually use the letters, so blind people can actually learn the Alphabet. Also, although Braille was created using that letters, it has been adapted to Asian languages, and languages like Hebrew as well. Pretty much any language. Also, another bonus fact, W wasn't in Louis' alphabet, so he had to add it in later, so the pattern that braille follows doesn't include W. An example of that pattern, is following: A is the first letter of the alphabet, and it's only dot 1, which is top row on the left. Then, if you add a dot 3 to that, which is third row on the left, you get a K. A K is 10 letters from A. Then, if you take the K, and you add a dot 6, which is the bottom right, you'll get U, and U is 10 letters from K. If you do this with all of the first 10 letters of the alphabet, you'll get the rest, except for W. I didn't realize this until I was like 20, because I just learned the letters, and wasn't told this pattern, but I thought it was really cool when I figured it out.
In my town, there is a smallish casino, and I was traveling through it's lobby to get to the attached restaurant, and I noticed there were signs 8 feet off the ground with English, French, and Braille indicating the location of ATMs etc. I pointed this out to my wife, and we noticed all of their garbage cans also were placed directly below their signs, meaning to read them you would have to know where it was and then climb onto a garbage can to touch it. I was and still am baffled.
I've always been pissed off that it took Americans until the 20th century to adapt braille. And even once it came to America, it wasn't the official writing system until the 30s I believe, maybe even later. If you Google, "the war of the dots," and find the article by the American Federation of the Blind, you can learn about it. It has to do with three different systems of writing for the blind, including Braille, that were fighting to be the main writing System for blind people in America. One of them had no punctuation, and the other was way too big to be read with one finger, which is what Braille was created to do! There was only one teacher who saw that his students were using braille and thought, "man of my students like this, maybe I should use it too!" And so he adopted it at his school. It was in large part thanks to Helen Keller that Braille was officially adopted by the US. She wrote a letter discussing how difficult it was having three different systems, and how much Braille was better than the others. It was awesome. 😀. It sucks though that today people think that Braille isn't as needed for blind people. Hello! We need to learn how to spell things correctly, and we want to actually be able to read things too! We also like being able to write down our thoughts without technology, just like sighted people can. Anybody who doubts the usefulness of Braille can bite me! My dots!
ZeldaWolf2000 I couldn’t agree more! People think that not teaching blind people how to read and write is perfectly reasonable; well sighted people can listen to audio books and use screen readers too, so why not stop teaching them how to read and write with those weird wiggly lines?
Leonetta B We are very lucky. I actually didn't learn until I was 18 that, the reason why my braille teacher was so passionate about me learning braille, even though I have usable vision, is because she has a deafblind brother. She knows from personal experience how important braille is. She knew that, even if I wouldn't use it all the time, that I needed to start learning it early. If I didn't, I wouldn't be as fluent in it, and I might not use it at all. My first memory is screwing around on my Perkins Brailer, which I still have, and use occasionally. I would use it a lot more if those around me knew braille, but my family never learned it. Did yours?
I think when you’re younger it’s probably easier to learn. My state’s training facility for the blind made me go thru nine months of Braille classes. I was 55. My fingers couldn’t distinguish the dots. I’ll take my screen reader.
Thanks for covering this and covering grade 2 braille. I once saw a braille bible online and it weighed over or about 80 pounds. I didnt look into weather or not it was grade 1 or 2 but that gives you an idea about how massive braille books can be.
Michele McDonald speaking of the braille Bible, spoiler alert, the move The Book of Eli makes me laugh my ass off. That ending is so ridiculous, and I know it's supposed to be epic, but as someone who reads braille all the time, it's fucking hilarious. The Braille Bible is not one book! It is a fucking suitcase of books! 😀 I love finding things like that in books and movies. Sometimes they're ridiculous and cringe worthy, other times there both of those, but also hilarious. Other times they make me rage. I prefer the farmerI I love finding things like that in books and movies. Sometimes they're ridiculous and cringe worthy, other times they're both of those, but also hilarious. Other times they make me rage. I prefer everything but the latter, but unfortunately get those a lot.
Hi Simon, Not too sure if this question has been asked before... How come the the pivot points on the ball-of-the-foot and ankle don't mimic the movement of real feet on feet made for artificial legs? Thanks.
A general question. Not sure where to ask it. I see that in some video games people ride horses on railroad tracks and bridges. I believe that a horse would refuse to do that, or break a leg trying. So, the question is: Can/do horses walk/run on railroad tracks? I know that it is actually illegal to ride or walk on railroad tracks and bridges because they are the private property of the railroads, but we are comparing reality to the fantasy of horses in video games.
Dagan Ward I don’t think it’s that they didn’t think about it, but that they were more limited by there technology, there weren’t many mechanical labor forces to make Braille efficiently or even paper for that matter to make it on back then...I’m sure if they had known how to make paper and if Sparta wasn’t so afraid of a slave revolt, then maybe we could have seen something like an Ancient Greek Braille system become invented and widely adopted in the ancient world, but alas, we will never know what could have happened, only speculate at a mere glimpse of an alternative history to our reality.
@@garrettallen7427 I think they probably could've done something like Braille on clay tablets. But I guess your right, they probably didn't really have the labor force or the necessity for it.
ancient greece was a shit period... Except if you where born into a filthy rich family, being disabled in any way was most likely a death sentence. Probably someone thought about it, and everybody else said "but why"?
That sound effect you guys have before your videos, could you turn that down, eh? I watch your vids on my phone through headphones, and that sound really hurts, then Simon sounds very quite in comparison. Please do something about this. Thanks
I'll never forget my 95% blind father telling me that when they tried to teach him braille in school he deliberately didn't learn it because he "wanted to rebel" and he still had partial sight. He was always bitter that they took him out of public school to go to the school of the blind. Now he relies entirely on audiobooks and his giant CCTV which blows words in books up to 100xs magnitude
Braille is indeed, a form of Runic. Part of the tradition of Runic-based written languages is that when inscribed, one can feel the inscriptions and know the runes, which is no different in Braille. Of course, most Runic based languages have their basis in sorcery, in which Braille is doubtlessly an exception. Tactile writing is a very ancient and well-renowned form of expression, but is slowly being phased out of practicality with technology becoming more and more powerful.
how is it possibly harder to learn to read embossed versions regular letters with your fingers, than a whole new language of dot patterns? I'd think a formerly-sighted, then blinded literate person, could mentally visualize the letters they already know as they feel them (not to mention that what they're reading would be readable to sighted people, as well, in case they got tired of letting their fingers do the reading, and got someone to read to them), much easier than learning a whole new language of dot patterns, which are nothing like the shape of letters, at all now, of course, someone's who's blind from birth would never know differently...anyone know the percentages of people born blind, versus those who go blind?
Although most people aren't born blind like myself, the print alphabet is still too complicated to be read with the fingers. Plus, as Simon mentioned, it had to be made much larger to be read with the fingers, making books GINORMOUS. Also, their is no easy way to write with embossed letters. There is also the fact that dots are easier to distinct than curves and lines. All of this combined made embossed letters very slow and cumbersome to use. On the other hand, braille not only uses dots, but, unlike NightWriting, is small enough to be read under one fingertip, thus can be easily read and written, along with having, again unlike Night Writing, an actual alphabet instead of just being representations of sound, it was the first (and so far only) REAL writing system for the blind. I'm actually using it right now to write this comment. I'm using an electronic braille keyboard paired to my iPhone via Bluetooth. I couldn't live without braille. I use it every day, and it means the world to me. I hope this reply has answered your questions and cleared up any misconceptions. you may have had regarding ,rl vs embossed letters.
But.....in braile....the letter are FAR MORE SIMMILAR than in non braile.....I've tried before, and the embossed letter way is WAY easier than Braille...even though raised letters are kind of hard to find now days.....but engraved letters work too.
So it was apparent that Braille's system worked better, but the teachers at the school wanted to stick with the raised letters system, because that's the way it had always been? 'Craze how stubborn people can be.
That, and they didn't want blind people to be able to teach themselves, because then sighted teachers would out of the job. They needed blind people to be reliant on them to keep their jobs.
So is braille? The for runner of texting? Before thing like LOL,WTF,and LMAF in texting. I love T.I.F.O.,but I will never watch the Ep. about how the blind know if they are finished whipping. It is known of my business. Like the video.
Thank you for covering this interesting topic. It's an amazing method, and offers so many many possibilities for blind people. I personally would be totally f"cked, though. My fingertips are scared, and especially in the index and middle fingers I have way too little sensitivity left to read those tiny dots.
Elle-Iza Logan You actually don't need your hands to read braille. I heard of a blind man with no hands who reads it with his lips. It's probably bad for his back, but he can still read. Humans are so adaptable! Go humanity! Also, you don't have to use just your index fingers like a lot of us do. You can use any fingers you want. A lot of people use all four, I personally don't, but you can use whichever fingers you want. Also, especially for saving people later in life learning braille, it takes them longer than it does for kids, as does anything. I would give it a shot. Try and read elevator signs, and things like that. You know what they say, so all you have to work at is concentrating on our fingers. Your brain will adapt eventually. It's pretty cool like that. Good luck.
So many blind people in the comment section. How do they use youtube? I've once seen a blind woman with a smartphone and had no bloody idea how she would use the touchscreen when she wasn't even aware of my position in the room...
It would be more fair to say that the US was the last to officially adopt Braille as an official uniform writing system for the blind, because at the time there were multiple systems in play to the point it literally was called The War of the Dots. Great Britain was also in the midst of all the literacy shenanigans. Examples of how absurd it got was some systems running about like New York Point, Boston line type, American Braille, and what have you.
fsmoura same! Braille is best! I love it! I mean, I listen to things too, but I love my dots! I can't really understand something until I actually read it with my fingers. It helps me retain the information so much better than just listening to it. Anybody else?
„Don’t touch. Danger!“ must be the most scary thing to read in Braille.
You should turn up the volume in intro. My hearing is not permanently damaged.
My Grandmother learned braille during world war one.
She was 10 and wanted to help vets blinded during the war by mustard gas. She parlayed that into a career at the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown Massachusetts where she worked most of her working days.
Your grandmother sounds like a sweet lady.
Learned how to read braille when I was in the third grade. Had to do something when my vision got to strained to see large printed words. Glad I did, changed my life.
Dusty Bragg I started learning braille when I was three. My farthest back memory is playing with my Perkins Brailer which I still have. Braille makes reading so much easier! Even though I can read braille, it wasn't really encouraged in my house, so I didn't really use it a lot until I was an adult. I had this realization that, "holy shit Braille is so much easier! Why don't you use that instead?!" And so I did. I mean, I still listen to things all the time too, but my god Braille is easier! It connects so much more with my memory than listening to things. I got a B on a history test because I use that to study instead of listening to all of my notes. I also remember books and stuff a lot better if I read them myself too. I love a great audiobook, but there's nothing to actually reading it yourself.
What about you? Agree? What's your experience?
ZeldaWolf2000 I think there must be something to that because I have exactly the same experience with sight reading material as opposed to just listening to it. I take in and remember the content much better when reading and even better still if I read it from a paper page (book) that I’m holding or touching than from only looking at a computer screen
ZeldaWolf2000 I still prefer audiobooks, especially when it comes the work of fiction. Some of those audiobooks today, have a great voice actors, and sound effects. Still I make plenty of written notes in braille. Honey do list, groceries, and reminders etc. and my wife, who is sited, has put braille labels on all of the kitchen, and laundry room, appliances. I'm no gourmet, but I'm pretty handy with a toaster, and crock pot. Hahaha
Dusty Bragg Yeah. Audiobooks today, especially from Audible, have really good readers. I especially like ones with sound effects, and/or that are rated by the reader. So cool! I just wish they weren't so expensive. Along with those though, I am a member of Bookshare, and I've started using this app connected to it called voice dream reader which is amazing! It's made for blind and Dyslexic people, and it works perfectly! I mean, it could use some improvement in the features, but it never crashes it, the voices are great, they don't sound computerized which is amazing, and it works perfectly with my display. Also, because there is only one programmer, he actually gives a shit! The thing with my display I found annoying, I emailed him about it, and one month later it was fixed! Now it's one of my favorite apps! I've never had that happen before. Usually, developers don't care about people with disabilities, because were such low profit to them, so to have someone who made this app for us, and cares enough about this one little issue to fix it within a month, just amazes me. Also, with this app combined with Bookshare, all books are free! I mean, it's in the hundred dollar fee for a year, and the app cost 15 bucks, but if you read a lot, totally worth it!
I use it for school and leisure reading, because Bookshare has quite a large library. I would definitely, if you're interested, getting a membership, and buying voice dream. Great combination. Bookshare.com btw.
I've been living for several years on rue Louis Braille in Paris. Every time I had to give my address, I felt very proud; sometimes just for the fact of having the opportunity to introduce this extraordinary guy to those who had never heard about him...
You have just been putting out amazing videos with correct, correct information about blind people. Thank you. I am visually impaired and I appreciate this. You really do your homework.
At a municipal airport in St. Pete, Florida, they mounted a Braille sign at the entrance to the pilots' parking lot. I often wondered how much that cost and who forced them to do it.
I'm sure it can't be that expensive and it helps people knowing that's in there, so they won't walk into a parking lot they have no interest being at.
Well, duh, it is for the blind drunk pilots who are coming to work.
Gabor - Today I Found Out did a video on that exact subject a couple of years back
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@Gabor the Blind Guy You aren't forced to drive to an atm.
@UCk-K6MjBzBwg44ir_Dacl8Q Some people's comments are best ignored.
I always assumed the braille on ATM buttons was a manufacturing choice. Rather than making a special non-braille batch for drive-throughs, just make them all the same, save time and money.
I learned about Braille, oddly enough, from the Pokémon games.
I learned about it from Little House On The Prairie.
Ah yes, Generation 3. Regirock, Regice, Registeel...easily missed if you don't look everywhere.
Very fond memories. Of frustration and triumph (getting these Pokémon is never easy lol)
A lot of people learn classical music from Looney Toons, so I'm not surprised.
My god hated that puzzle in ruby and sapphire luckely my dad used to translate braille books, he did know noting of pokemon tho so result where weird.
Nay Nay same
Can I just say that I heavily appreciate the fact that the title of the video is a question, and in the first 10 seconds of the video, you answer that question
thanks it just hit me in the middle of the video that the braille is 6x6 tiles and that makes the 26 letters of the alphabet plus the punctuation, i really did learn somthing today=)
👏🏻 Fascinating, thank you! 👏🏻
as a blind person myself, there is also computer, nemeth aka math, music, and many different language braille as well.
Simon... why is your intro music so incredibly loud?
Yes. Every time I hear that intro music my cat jumps off the couch and runs away.
As a person who is legally blind. Thank you fir putting this video out. Although I don’t use Braille this gives the general public a glimpse of what learning/reading is like fir blind people
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Forgot to mention in my last comment, but another thing that was wrong with night writing was that he didn't use letters. It was all about sounds, so someone without prior knowledge of the written word, couldn't learn it from that system. That was another thing Louis tried, and succeeded, in creating, a system of reading and writing that actually use the letters, so blind people can actually learn the Alphabet.
Also, although Braille was created using that letters, it has been adapted to Asian languages, and languages like Hebrew as well. Pretty much any language.
Also, another bonus fact, W wasn't in Louis' alphabet, so he had to add it in later, so the pattern that braille follows doesn't include W. An example of that pattern, is following:
A is the first letter of the alphabet, and it's only dot 1, which is top row on the left. Then, if you add a dot 3 to that, which is third row on the left, you get a K. A K is 10 letters from A. Then, if you take the K, and you add a dot 6, which is the bottom right, you'll get U, and U is 10 letters from K. If you do this with all of the first 10 letters of the alphabet, you'll get the rest, except for W.
I didn't realize this until I was like 20, because I just learned the letters, and wasn't told this pattern, but I thought it was really cool when I figured it out.
That sound at the start makes me think my speakers have blown.
I've seen Braille warnings on steam pipes
In my town, there is a smallish casino, and I was traveling through it's lobby to get to the attached restaurant, and I noticed there were signs 8 feet off the ground with English, French, and Braille indicating the location of ATMs etc. I pointed this out to my wife, and we noticed all of their garbage cans also were placed directly below their signs, meaning to read them you would have to know where it was and then climb onto a garbage can to touch it. I was and still am baffled.
Oh dear!
To continue with the subject of unusual forms of communication, an episode on shorthand like Gregg or Pitman would certainly be entertaining.
I remember reading a book about this kid way back in elementary
I've always been pissed off that it took Americans until the 20th century to adapt braille. And even once it came to America, it wasn't the official writing system until the 30s I believe, maybe even later. If you Google, "the war of the dots," and find the article by the American Federation of the Blind, you can learn about it. It has to do with three different systems of writing for the blind, including Braille, that were fighting to be the main writing System for blind people in America. One of them had no punctuation, and the other was way too big to be read with one finger, which is what Braille was created to do! There was only one teacher who saw that his students were using braille and thought, "man of my students like this, maybe I should use it too!" And so he adopted it at his school. It was in large part thanks to Helen Keller that Braille was officially adopted by the US. She wrote a letter discussing how difficult it was having three different systems, and how much Braille was better than the others. It was awesome. 😀. It sucks though that today people think that Braille isn't as needed for blind people. Hello! We need to learn how to spell things correctly, and we want to actually be able to read things too! We also like being able to write down our thoughts without technology, just like sighted people can. Anybody who doubts the usefulness of Braille can bite me! My dots!
ZeldaWolf2000 I couldn’t agree more!
People think that not teaching blind people how to read and write is perfectly reasonable; well sighted people can listen to audio books and use screen readers too, so why not stop teaching them how to read and write with those weird wiggly lines?
Leonetta B I'm assuming you know Braille too? If so, when did you start learning? I was three.
ZeldaWolf2000 I think that I was around four or five when I started learning.
Leonetta B We are very lucky. I actually didn't learn until I was 18 that, the reason why my braille teacher was so passionate about me learning braille, even though I have usable vision, is because she has a deafblind brother. She knows from personal experience how important braille is. She knew that, even if I wouldn't use it all the time, that I needed to start learning it early. If I didn't, I wouldn't be as fluent in it, and I might not use it at all. My first memory is screwing around on my Perkins Brailer, which I still have, and use occasionally. I would use it a lot more if those around me knew braille, but my family never learned it. Did yours?
I think when you’re younger it’s probably easier to learn. My state’s training facility for the blind made me go thru nine months of Braille classes. I was 55. My fingers couldn’t distinguish the dots. I’ll take my screen reader.
Ha! I already knew that Louis Braille developed braille. I was given a book on him as a child and somehow retained the knowledge. 😂
Thanks for covering this and covering grade 2 braille. I once saw a braille bible online and it weighed over or about 80 pounds. I didnt look into weather or not it was grade 1 or 2 but that gives you an idea about how massive braille books can be.
Michele McDonald speaking of the braille Bible, spoiler alert, the move The Book of Eli makes me laugh my ass off. That ending is so ridiculous, and I know it's supposed to be epic, but as someone who reads braille all the time, it's fucking hilarious. The Braille Bible is not one book! It is a fucking suitcase of books! 😀 I love finding things like that in books and movies. Sometimes they're ridiculous and cringe worthy, other times there both of those, but also hilarious. Other times they make me rage. I prefer the farmerI I love finding things like that in books and movies. Sometimes they're ridiculous and cringe worthy, other times they're both of those, but also hilarious. Other times they make me rage. I prefer everything but the latter, but unfortunately get those a lot.
0:08 Question answered. That was a quick video. Thanks!
Have a good Year TIFO!
Interesting stuff,
Thanks again for all the information,
Peace out everyone
I thought everyone knew this story!! We were taught it at school...
I came to check I'd not been lied to!
Hi Simon, Not too sure if this question has been asked before...
How come the the pivot points on the ball-of-the-foot and ankle don't mimic the movement of real feet on feet made for artificial legs?
Thanks.
while we are on the subject of learning can you do a video of who invented the back pack?
Did you know Playboy has braille copies of their articles because of awesomness.
You like playboy??
A general question. Not sure where to ask it. I see that in some video games people ride horses on railroad tracks and bridges. I believe that a horse would refuse to do that, or break a leg trying. So, the question is: Can/do horses walk/run on railroad tracks? I know that it is actually illegal to ride or walk on railroad tracks and bridges because they are the private property of the railroads, but we are comparing reality to the fantasy of horses in video games.
Thank you. That was cool.
Never thought fact boi would be helping me lead my cub scouts!!! 😂😂❤
Thanks
It's kinda weird that braille wasn't invented until the 1800s. I mean like no one in ancient Greece ever thought of something like that?
Dagan Ward I don’t think it’s that they didn’t think about it, but that they were more limited by there technology, there weren’t many mechanical labor forces to make Braille efficiently or even paper for that matter to make it on back then...I’m sure if they had known how to make paper and if Sparta wasn’t so afraid of a slave revolt, then maybe we could have seen something like an Ancient Greek Braille system become invented and widely adopted in the ancient world, but alas, we will never know what could have happened, only speculate at a mere glimpse of an alternative history to our reality.
@@garrettallen7427 I think they probably could've done something like Braille on clay tablets. But I guess your right, they probably didn't really have the labor force or the necessity for it.
ancient greece was a shit period... Except if you where born into a filthy rich family, being disabled in any way was most likely a death sentence. Probably someone thought about it, and everybody else said "but why"?
@@chinchenping yeah, I guess so
@John M I didn't even consider the literacy rate.
Great vid
That sound effect you guys have before your videos, could you turn that down, eh? I watch your vids on my phone through headphones, and that sound really hurts, then Simon sounds very quite in comparison. Please do something about this. Thanks
Starting audio WAY to loud.
0:09 Oh. Thank you. It's.. still 4 and a half minutes left.. Just kidding, love the content guys!
I'll never forget my 95% blind father telling me that when they tried to teach him braille in school he deliberately didn't learn it because he "wanted to rebel" and he still had partial sight. He was always bitter that they took him out of public school to go to the school of the blind. Now he relies entirely on audiobooks and his giant CCTV which blows words in books up to 100xs magnitude
Is Braille represented in Unicode?
0:01 RIP headphone users
Braille works well with languages that use the Latin alphabet but what about languages that use other alphabets like Russian, Japanese, or Chinese?
Does 2×8 brialle have any real world use?
I saw that Inside Edition video too.
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Braille is indeed, a form of Runic.
Part of the tradition of Runic-based written languages is that when inscribed, one can feel the inscriptions and know the runes, which is no different in Braille. Of course, most Runic based languages have their basis in sorcery, in which Braille is doubtlessly an exception. Tactile writing is a very ancient and well-renowned form of expression, but is slowly being phased out of practicality with technology becoming more and more powerful.
how is it possibly harder to learn to read embossed versions regular letters with your fingers, than a whole new language of dot patterns? I'd think a formerly-sighted, then blinded literate person, could mentally visualize the letters they already know as they feel them (not to mention that what they're reading would be readable to sighted people, as well, in case they got tired of letting their fingers do the reading, and got someone to read to them), much easier than learning a whole new language of dot patterns, which are nothing like the shape of letters, at all
now, of course, someone's who's blind from birth would never know differently...anyone know the percentages of people born blind, versus those who go blind?
Although most people aren't born blind like myself, the print alphabet is still too complicated to be read with the fingers. Plus, as Simon mentioned, it had to be made much larger to be read with the fingers, making books GINORMOUS. Also, their is no easy way to write with embossed letters. There is also the fact that dots are easier to distinct than curves and lines. All of this combined made embossed letters very slow and cumbersome to use.
On the other hand, braille not only uses dots, but, unlike NightWriting, is small enough to be read under one fingertip, thus can be easily read and written, along with having, again unlike Night Writing, an actual alphabet instead of just being representations of sound, it was the first (and so far only) REAL writing system for the blind.
I'm actually using it right now to write this comment. I'm using an electronic braille keyboard paired to my iPhone via Bluetooth. I couldn't live without braille. I use it every day, and it means the world to me. I hope this reply has answered your questions and cleared up any misconceptions. you may have had regarding ,rl vs embossed letters.
Intro had me thinking I was listening to Sicko Mode
Can you do a video on the origin of the word "bullseye" and how it came to be?
So it _is_ pronounced like that?
Recently I heard some people (more than one) pronouncing it "Bruy" which confused me no end.
OK, using Wikipedia I found the answer myself. One is the Anglicized, the other the original French pronunciation.
(English: /breɪl/; French: [bʁaj])
Braille is one thing...but how would one know when to stop wiping?
Buzzfeed: How Napoleon created Braille for blind soldiers.
Why do we say cheese when we have our picture taken
Forces you to show your teeth and resemble a smile. If everyone is saying it in unison the photographer can capture everyone smiling.
because cheese makes everything better
I guess the text version of this video was made in Braille
I wonder who invented the screen reader?
Aaron Kyro I'm pretty sure.
Wrong Braille, my bad
I was looking for a braille skateboarding reference
Sara
Found one! =}
Aaron kyro from the San Francisco Bay area invented it.
Yesss
It was Christian Braille, duh!! He also starred in some Batman movies?
Phoebe Braille?
The guy who invented braille being named Braille isn't a "coincidence". 00:11
Sarcasm.
Did he say every other week?
Why is it that the United States always seem to be the last pig headed hold out in adopting a new, better system?
Especially #SI / #Metric
I willingly admit that I have utterly failed my Will save to resist making a stupid bad pun.
OH I SEE
But.....in braile....the letter are FAR MORE SIMMILAR than in non braile.....I've tried before, and the embossed letter way is WAY easier than Braille...even though raised letters are kind of hard to find now days.....but engraved letters work too.
How did Helen Kellen burn her ear? She answered the iron.
Aaron Kyro did.
TURN DOWN THAT INTRO VOLUME JEEZ MAN
I find it odd that elevators have braille but nothing to let the blind know what floor they just stopped at
ua-cam.com/video/48hW-K7fQTM/v-deo.html elevators have special sounds.
But the real question, is what IS Braille ??
So it was apparent that Braille's system worked better, but the teachers at the school wanted to stick with the raised letters system, because that's the way it had always been? 'Craze how stubborn people can be.
That, and they didn't want blind people to be able to teach themselves, because then sighted teachers would out of the job. They needed blind people to be reliant on them to keep their jobs.
My guess is someone named Braille
My guess before I opened the video was Lester Braille. pretty close
Aaron Karo did.
Can a Vapor Pen set off a smoke detector?
Well I’ll be....
Braille invented Braille
Thumbs up Indiana USA.
So is braille? The for runner of texting? Before thing like LOL,WTF,and LMAF in texting. I love T.I.F.O.,but I will never watch the Ep. about how the blind know if they are finished whipping. It is known of my business. Like the video.
Thank you for covering this interesting topic. It's an amazing method, and offers so many many possibilities for blind people.
I personally would be totally f"cked, though. My fingertips are scared, and especially in the index and middle fingers I have way too little sensitivity left to read those tiny dots.
Elle-Iza Logan You actually don't need your hands to read braille. I heard of a blind man with no hands who reads it with his lips. It's probably bad for his back, but he can still read. Humans are so adaptable! Go humanity! Also, you don't have to use just your index fingers like a lot of us do. You can use any fingers you want. A lot of people use all four, I personally don't, but you can use whichever fingers you want. Also, especially for saving people later in life learning braille, it takes them longer than it does for kids, as does anything. I would give it a shot. Try and read elevator signs, and things like that. You know what they say, so all you have to work at is concentrating on our fingers. Your brain will adapt eventually. It's pretty cool like that. Good luck.
Aaron Kyro made Braille
I'm finally early for once in my life
Do other alphabets have their own "Braille"?
Can you do who invented sign language
That's a good request.
So many blind people in the comment section. How do they use youtube? I've once seen a blind woman with a smartphone and had no bloody idea how she would use the touchscreen when she wasn't even aware of my position in the room...
America, always the last to adopt any new system. One 'might' be tempted to say that Americans are just slow. However, I won't be the one to do so...
It would be more fair to say that the US was the last to officially adopt Braille as an official uniform writing system for the blind, because at the time there were multiple systems in play to the point it literally was called The War of the Dots. Great Britain was also in the midst of all the literacy shenanigans.
Examples of how absurd it got was some systems running about like New York Point, Boston line type, American Braille, and what have you.
Do you have a problem with diversity?
America doesn't give in to peerpressure. Stay in school kids.
Who invented Braille? Well obviously everyone knows it was, you know, the guy.
Aaron kyro invented braille
It's also interesting because of modern technology most blind people can't read braille these days
every blind person i know can read braille
Aaron Kyro...
a blind person, of course
That narrows it down.
fsmoura well, duh.
fsmoura lol!
fsmoura Aldous Snow! Lol
fsmoura same! Braille is best! I love it! I mean, I listen to things too, but I love my dots! I can't really understand something until I actually read it with my fingers. It helps me retain the information so much better than just listening to it. Anybody else?
uh, since its a guys name, his parents invented him.
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48 views and 53 likes. 🤔
views and likes aren't precisely live tracked.
Braille is just spicy paper
Probably a blind person.
Second view!! Aha win
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