@Thalassokrator said in #9:
> Blind people can read novels. They can also write a novel. One fairly well-known example is John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), widely regarded as one of the greatest (English language) literary works of all time:
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
> Your comment bespeaks your ignorance of this subject. Don't get me wrong ignorance is normal. We are all ignorant of almost everything (and so am I) and there's no shame in that! Still there are some things worth pointing out:
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> Just as an example, braille is a writing system that relies purely on the sense of touch.
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
> It was developed by a fifteen-year-old blind teenager by the name of Louis Braille in 1824; he published it five years later. There are many other such systems, but Braille is fairly common in French, English and other European languages (up to 133 languages can be written in Braille), which is why you can encounter it on a nearly daily basis (inscriptions on monuments and artworks in public spaces, leaflets and information museums or exhibitions) in some parts of Europe if you are mindful of it.
> A braille character consists of (up to) six raised dots on a 3 x 2 grid. These braille cells can represent alphabetic letters, numbers and punctuation (.,!?;:). For non-alphabetic languages (like Mandarin Chinese) special tricks are necessary like transliteration and using a semi-syllabary:
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Chinese_Braille
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> There are braille typewriters, braille computer keyboards, slate and stylus (portable braille writing tools), braille embossers (impact printers), refreshable braille displays, etc. So you can read and write physical and digital media. There are physical books written in braille. And ebooks can be displayed on a refreshable braille display via a braille translator (software). All you need to read it are your fingertips.
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> There's wheelchair football, power soccer and wheelchair soccer. So paralysed people can play football.
Thanks for this wonderful comment. I found most examples in this post to be rather ignorant and prejudiced as well. Not stupid nor funny.
> Blind people can read novels. They can also write a novel. One fairly well-known example is John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), widely regarded as one of the greatest (English language) literary works of all time:
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
> Your comment bespeaks your ignorance of this subject. Don't get me wrong ignorance is normal. We are all ignorant of almost everything (and so am I) and there's no shame in that! Still there are some things worth pointing out:
>
> Just as an example, braille is a writing system that relies purely on the sense of touch.
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
> It was developed by a fifteen-year-old blind teenager by the name of Louis Braille in 1824; he published it five years later. There are many other such systems, but Braille is fairly common in French, English and other European languages (up to 133 languages can be written in Braille), which is why you can encounter it on a nearly daily basis (inscriptions on monuments and artworks in public spaces, leaflets and information museums or exhibitions) in some parts of Europe if you are mindful of it.
> A braille character consists of (up to) six raised dots on a 3 x 2 grid. These braille cells can represent alphabetic letters, numbers and punctuation (.,!?;:). For non-alphabetic languages (like Mandarin Chinese) special tricks are necessary like transliteration and using a semi-syllabary:
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Chinese_Braille
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> There are braille typewriters, braille computer keyboards, slate and stylus (portable braille writing tools), braille embossers (impact printers), refreshable braille displays, etc. So you can read and write physical and digital media. There are physical books written in braille. And ebooks can be displayed on a refreshable braille display via a braille translator (software). All you need to read it are your fingertips.
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> There's wheelchair football, power soccer and wheelchair soccer. So paralysed people can play football.
Thanks for this wonderful comment. I found most examples in this post to be rather ignorant and prejudiced as well. Not stupid nor funny.
