[gui-talk] braille

[Rick Roderick]

I changed  the  subject line to  reflect the discussion.

I have a theory, or perhaps, a hyposis, about why braille is usually read 
more  slowly by people who  learn it later.

When a person learns  a foreign language, they can be slowed down by 
word-for-word translation.  When I took French in high school and college, I 
was never able to conquer  this.  I am not discounting Laura's comments 
about finger sensitivity, but I  also wonder if  a role is played by the 
need, at first, to read the braille and translate it in one's mind to the 
print symbol.

Those of us who are congenitally blind did not learn this first.  I know 
that  when I hear a word spelled, I  think of it in braille.