actingwithportals:allthingslinguistic: kurisquare: This is part of my webcomic Postcards in Braille,
actingwithportals:allthingslinguistic: kurisquare: This is part of my webcomic Postcards in Braille, which you can read on ComicFury or Tapastic. Updates on Mondays! This comic/guide works well enough on its own, so I thought it’d be nice to post it here as well :D Braille is really cool and you don’t need to be blind or visually impaired to learn it - and spreading the use of Braille can help us build a more inclusive society! everyone wins! Bonus fun fact: Braille is originally based on Night writing (or sonography), a tactile reading/writing system created for soldiers to communicate silently at night. Louis Braille adapted it into easier to read cells, creating the Braille system. Good to know it evolved into something so useful! I’m guessing that W being an exception in Braille may have been because Louis Braille was French, and French doesn’t really use the W except in loanwords (for example, French pangrams virtually always contain a loanword to get the W in). That’s exactly correct! When Braille was first created W was not part of the alphabet, it being French, and had to be added later for the English alphabet Check out IPA Braille as well! Fun fact: you can always find it in a Wikipedia article for each sound on the IPA chart :) -- source link