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Full History - 2021 - 10 - 25 - ID#qfeocp
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Tarnagona 3 points 1y ago
The folks over at r/neography will probably find your alphabet interesting.

From the description, it sounds like you emboss the letters by pressing really hard with a pen, then flip the other way to read. Yes, that is easier to come by than a slate and stylus, but I wonder how effective it is. Have you tested this, both reading and writing with blind people and/or blindfolded yourself? How do you ensure the letters don’t go everywhere without a guide? How big do the letters need to be in order to be legible by touch?

Braille won out over other tactile alphabets of the day, e.g. moon time, because of its simplicity. The combinations of dots are fairly easy to discern (with a bit of practice) with a pretty small letter size. Other tactile systems have to be bigger to be able to properly feel more complex letter shapes.

Braille does have downsides, of course. It’s easy to learn, but hard to master. And it must be a heck of a time for dyslexic people with all the mirrored letters. But I don’t have evidence yet that your system is any better. You haven’t even described or shown us what the letters look like, nor really demonstrated it’s ease of use.

It’s an interesting concept, and I’d be curious to see an example, because I love made-up alphabets. But I think you might be trying to solve something that isn’t really a problem, especially as assistive technology continues to become more available to more and more people all the time.
zersiax 1 points 1y ago
Ok first, posting the same thing more than once isn't going to get you any more interest.
Second, your ...product? concept? is iffy at best, has no acompanying documentation, web presence or research behind it that you are sharing.

Third, nothing or nobody is using this system, which limits the utility of this whole thing tremendously; it's pretty much only useful for writing yourself notes at this point unless people all learn this en masse. There's also no way to digitize it properly.

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Overall the concept sounds ...somewhat intriguing, from a language perspective, but extremely off-kilter for almost everything else.
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