Iyla Lacoste hey you hit me I can’t see oh ok

Lmao

same lol

His laugh is what got me.

😂

+DeJMan's Gaming Seriously funny! I can't stop laughing. Is that bad? XD

+DeJMan's Gaming That is so mean but, I can't stop laughing! LOLOLOL

+DeJMan's Gaming That's not funny. That's just stupid.

Braillewriters cost a lot more than slates and styluses. It's harder, I think, to Braille just one dot at a time with a stylus.. DeJMan does have a point.

I wonder what Darwin would say about those people

Joe Bloe from the looks of it I would say it's not complex at all.

carolyn mmitchell I was going to say the same. pretty damn simple. the hard part is just memorizing what each one means

Well it must be hard to remember (I suppose it's a bit like morse code), I don't really understand how people can read with their fingers either. Everything just feels like the same to me. My fingers aren't sensitive enough.

Well, I would say it's like you remembering all the 26 letters from the alphabet and numbers and punctuations and special characters, the grammar rules and so on. And aren't you fascinated by the fact that you can recognise a word that is made of several letters each next to te previous one? It's just a matter of training and necessity.

EJMasterpiece English characters are rather distinct.

He should write a whole novel in Braille

and read it to us in braille? XD

Nocturnal Toothbrush it's because kids learn faster than adults

well as a blind person you are used to taking in information through touch so it would be much easier. also when we learned writing as children we had to practise a lot and fr a long time until getting to a point where we would be able to write reasonably fast and legibly (is that a word idk) so for them it would be the same, just a different method of writing

Quike Lopez how do you see the video/comments being completely blind?

carolyn mmitchell watch Tommy’s video on how he uses his phone. Pretty cool.

Nocturnal Toothbrush That's what he would say seeing the alphabet and having to learn to write it. It's the same thing.

+Daniel Postan L

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Daniel, couldn't you have looked it up?

Yep!

I would fail. I can't play piano.

haha yes

yeh

i thought it was an intentional joke

hahaha omg I didn't but now I do and it's hilarious

James Murray how the fuck is it a gov scheme

but could it run doom

So other people can buy it for them

I suppose, but it seems to me if anything in the world is going to have braille on it, it would be the machine that writes braille.

Scott J he can feel out print as well

Scott J I thought the same thing!

Every blind person who touches it knows what it is instantly.

it doesn't need to be. Me being blind knows what it feels like.

You would think that it would have it in both Enlish and Braille. Then both sighted and blind could read the brand name.

The words 'Perkins Braillers' are in raised print. A blind person can read them just fine

@@jmheavymetal wait how are you in the comments section if you are blind? legitimate quaestion.

@@loic7867 you can use a program called a screen reader it will read to you what is on the screen and anything you type.

he has never seen the beach or crowds. Since he has never seen anything in his entire life, his brain never knew what vision was so he can only get audio hallucinations because the vision part of his brain has never woken up.

Well maybe to some extent, but I don't think it would be like he was really there. Tommy would also use his other senses other than his hearing. Like if he was at the beach he would smell the ocean as well as hear the waves on the sand. He wouldn't get that if he was sitting in his couch with headphones on. That's a cool thought though.

There is different kinds of Braille. There's Braille for regular reading and writing, there's Braille for math, there's Braille for music, like all the notes, and keys, there's even Braille for computer coding. And yes there's Braille in almost every language. And for tests and exams we get extra time because we have to read the entire exam in Braille. An exam that would take you 3 hours would take me probable six and a half.

Cece Price Thank you so much for responding with your knowledge and insight! It sounds incredible.

Claudia Sketches At my school the teachers do tests orally for the visually impaired. There are conditions I can't remember, but it is a much simpler system.

I looked up the Braille for my language, Greek, and I found out some interesting things: I was surprised that there's an accent mark (΄) in Braille, as well. There are special characters for all the diphtongs. For example, αι isn't written as an α and an ι, but it's got its own "symbol." This actually helps spare another diacritic that is "normally" used, (¨). And the most interesting thing is that there are two Braille versions of the Greek alphabet. One used by Greeks and an international one. The international is used outside of Greece to write symbols in mathematics and physics. However if say a non-Greek blind person would like to read an ancient Greek text, I couldn't find which alphabet he'd use.

Tom Raptile That is so interesting! Thank you very much for spending the time to respond and share your research :)

+Narcisco Daniel I was going to say that's really cool, but since Braille would take about 2 hours to learn...why didn't they do that instead? It's not rocket science :p

***** Aren't they always :D

+Ronja Meurer It may not be rocket science, but it took me a lot more than 2 hours to learn to type (which, in a way, is a language for your fingers similar to braille in that positioning is very important, and you don't look at the keys, your body just learns where to go... there are even some words I know how to type but would have to think about how to spell if I was writing them down), so I'm guessing the average person would need more than 2 hours to master braille to the point they would be able to interpret another person's work. Especially if that person is, say, a high school student who may or may not have the best handle on spelling/grammar and/or sentence structure.

Samantha Lee Yeah, I also realized that it's way more than just your standard alphabet/numeric system (which would make 36 signs in total). But it would freak me out NOT to know what he's writing - especially if it's for several years straight :P Cool move of you to learn Braille (AND the typing, too). Do you work with blind people or are you just interested? :)

+Ronja Meurer I haven't actually learned Braille myself. I have sight in my left eye (but none in my right), so the technology for fully sighted people usually does the job for me (I hate writing things out by hand though because it's really slow due to poor hand eye coordination, but I can type up to 50 words per minute). I have looked into the basics of Braille because, as a child, I was paranoid that I would lose sight in my other eye as well... but it looked too complex to learn if I didn't actually need it yet, and I figured if I did go fully blind I'd have to learn a whole bunch of new things (or old things in New ways), so I'd just add Braille to the list at that time. although with voice to text and screen reader programs, I'm not sure how much I'd need Braille at this point in my life.

Ada Harrison I mean, you have to make them too, by pressing shift. It's the same thing.

Tracy Li Not when you're reading it back though. Then you just have an extra character to read

@@tracyli9463 I think he means the extra step of wasting an entire extra character space to indicate something that isn't really that important. Capital letters are really just a type of shorthand for sighted people to read. It draws our visual attention to something. It seems rather unnecessary in braille

Lol yeah and that made me think how it would be in German because we have that stupid rule that every noun has to be written with a capital letter. (For example "the house" would be "das Haus") And I wonder if they have to do it in braille too... would be annoying

@@trequor not in German sadly 🙄 I think it's the language that uses capital letters the most because of the fact that we write nouns with capital letters

That's awesome! I taught myself sign language in 1st grade and also continued to use it for certain things. I really like helping the disabled and when I'm older, in going to help out with special needs kids

Rachel Timler that's amazing! :D well now I know how to use a brailler heart by heart now

I'm glad there are other people who are learning things like this by choice. I'm a fortunate person when it comes to senses. I don't have perfect eyesight, but I can still see. I can hear perfectly fine and I use that to my advantage with my music abilities. Music is one of my favorite things ever.

Okay omg at first I read "when i grow up, i want to be blind"

Rachel Timler It's better to have blurry vision insted of dark vision

"What are your views?" Sir, you are malevolouse x'D

toulouse y At least 5 min long.

Just click the next video on his channel. Plenty of minutes to watch ;-)

no one gives a fuck what u want bitch

just watch in .5 speed

I agree

A lot of practice getting used to small differences in Braille. A lot of Braille is just learning how to understand little tactile information.

I think the simplified dots are faster I read than having to trace the whole letter with your finger.

The dot system id just easier to feel, it takes less long to read.

I'd say it's on par, difficulty-wise, with sighted people learning how to read and write. Braille is just a different reading/writing system.

As someone who knows Braille, it's a lot more complicated. A lot of the issue comes in something he didn't even talk about: Contractions. Certain letters actually mean several letters or even an entire word. For example, Dots 3,4, and 5 make the letters "ar"

It's not a 1-1 correlation like you'd expect. There are Braille symbols that correspond to each letter, but then you have some Contracted forms. For example, there's a special symbol for "en". Braille would be like if our alphabet had ~100 letters, plus some shortened forms of words that you can't really write in English.

knocknockify At first Braille can be challenging, But the key is to practice every day for an hour. The more you practice, Braille gets easier! I love Braille!

Yes there's shorthand. We have Braille contractions because it takes up so much space. One full page of paper for you would probably be 3 pages in Braille.

oh cool,thanks!

It actually looks simpler than usual typewriter.

Sort of reminds me a bit of binary, just using 6 bits instead of 8 :P

porteal I think everyone should learn brail and sign when they are children learning the regular alphabet.. I don't know either but it would have been awesome if they would have done that when I was young.

porteal Braille is almost entirely useless to a sighted person. There is almost actually zero reason to learn it, especially in the day and age of computing which can automatically translate what is being written in braille anyway.

My message was directed at Jon M

Yeah I see what you mean. It's a bit like learning to touch-type. Hey, why don't blind people touch-type?

Johnny Morrison-Howe Well, I'm sure they do now. Since, if they'd ever want to use a computer they'd have to learn how to touch type.

Think about it. How and why would he learn "Sighted" Alphabet. He would have no idea at all what a letter looks like. That made no sense. If blind people were able to learn "sighted" alphabet then there would be no use for braille.

Some blind people know braille.

Well, maybe he doesn't know what all the letters look like, (even though he called out that one braille pattern as being like a backwards "L") but I imagine he knows what they all are and how to use them.

Jessica Nguyen he doesnt act like it? what does that mean? how do disabled people act if not like this?

Not "basically", exactly.

Carlos Martinez yesss

Alexus Johnson yeah you forgot a period haha.

A period is dots 2, A period is dots 2, 5,6. A comma is dot 2. Quotation marks are dots 2, 3, 6 and dots 3, 5, 6. A comma is dot 2. An apostrophe is dot 3. And the capital sign for making capital letters (example: capital A, is dots 6 and 1)

oops. I made a mistake. A period is dots 2, 5, and 6.

They used to do it that way, but the books were really expensive and the print was very large. Braille was invented and it just worked better.

Feeling the difference in letter shape is very subtle, especially when they're as small as they are on a keypad. Braille is more efficient as it has much more pronounced differences, the pattern of the cell also helps.

Curmicaros Uercaitorix Yeah true. I actually found Braille at my high school and a guy told me it was for the blind. I was confused til now. Maybe they can improve on it as we get better with technology. It's cuz I think if they learned the keyboard, maybe they can actually write.

Well, they could probably learn to _type_ on a keyboard. But _feeling_ those letters is just hard, so it wouldn't solve anything. The difference between w and vv, or between a capital I (i) and a lowercase l (L) , would be impossible to tell. So, sure, they could _write_ on keyboard, but only for people who aren't blind. Braille is not necessarily so blind people can type, but so they can read.

for us maybe ..

fedos Why does English have them in the first place?

They're visual indicators.

Depends, are we helping Uncle Jack off a horse or are we helping uncle jack off a horse?

A visual indicator of? Is the thing that it is a visual indicator of, important? Is it maybe something that doesn't necessarily have to be visual? Tf sort of answer is "a visual indicator" when it's literary.

So you can type numbers in base 64. Obviously.

Yu cant speak Braille...

What

Very interesting would like to learn braile

We don't use braille to speak we use it for writing. :)

In limbo don't belong to the blind completely don't belong in the sighted world but entering a new world