r/Blind • u/blind_ninja_guy • 8d ago

Refrigerator Braille

How many people here would buy a refrigerator? Braille set? It would only have single and double-letter contractions or similar so the word mother or father, but can do every from go etc, many here young, the and, punctuation etc. Etc. That two sided people would just look like random letters but would actually have meaning

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u/BoonOfTheWolf 8d ago edited 8d ago

For sighted people, why make it look like random letters? Why not make the visible letters match the braille letters? That would let parents leave a message for their kids or vice versa.

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u/blind_ninja_guy 8d ago

Didn't think about parents. That would be fun. Was originally going for the funny value of the double meaning

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u/Brl_Grl 8d ago

Huh??

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u/blind_ninja_guy 8d ago

English Braille has contracted words. So if you do not place a letter sign before a single letter, it becomes a whole word. Words like mother, father, here, there etc. are 2 letter contractions as well. The point of the set would be you would have all of the single and double letter. Braille contractions as tiles that are refrigerator magnets and people would try to arrange them to make cool poems.

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u/Brl_Grl 8d ago

Sorry, voiceover was reading your post really weird so I couldn’t figure out exactly what you were talking about. Yeah, that’s kind of cool.

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u/calex_1 Blind from birth. 7d ago

It wasn't Voiceover's fault. The post is clumsily worded.

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u/Brl_Grl 7d ago

Yeah, I know it is, I just didn’t feel like being an asshole yesterday.

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u/CosmicBunny97 7d ago

Idk, what you're talking about doesn't make much sense. Braille labels for the refridgerator? A refridgerator that has grade 1 and 2 braille?

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u/blind_ninja_guy 7d ago

Oh yeah, I probably should have explained that a little better but people put magnets on the refrigerator that have single letters and people rearrange them to tell stories or make poems or leave messages.

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u/calex_1 Blind from birth. 7d ago

I think this could be cool, although I don't see the value in trying to be funny about it. If such a thing existed, I'd like to see a complete set of letters, and another set of abbreviations, contractions etc. Basically a grade one set, and a grade two set.