got it back today, error free. well, almost. the infringement wasn’t quite as harsh as breaking a rule, but the proofreader had to point it out. the library of congress does not recommend hyphenating a word over two pages, and i accidentally did.
so, since it wasn’t a broken rule, she indicated, “Thank you for your great work in preparing this lesson and I look forward to receiving Lesson 5.”
which brings me to the slow return of how difficult braille became the first time around. lesson 5 introduces whole-word contractions for child, shall, which, this, still, and out and part-word contractions for ch, sh, wh, th, st, and ou, each of which must be used except whe the contraction involves a prefix (mishap) or a non-hyphenated compound word (rawhide).
a friend of mine and i were wondering why computers haven’t been programmed to braille automatically, and i think it would be like writing an app filled with exceptions.
imagine user-acceptance testing that mess.
