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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love that the braille just cuts off too:

"HOT SURFACE DO NOT"

As if to say: if you made it this far then you already know.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It says "hot surface do not touch" in full, actually. Braille uses single characters to represent some common letter combinations ("touch" is "t" + "ou" + "ch"). The words "do" and "not" are each contracted to a single letter ("d" and "n" respectively).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille#Contractions

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aaahh OK. I thought I was so clever to just count the characters lol. Classic Dunning-Kruger

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well, you can learn actual basic braille in like 15 minutes. The only important thing missing in it is ⠼ that denotes that following symbol is a a number. E.g. ⠁⠃⠉ is "abc" but ⠼⠁⠃⠉ is 123.

A neat trick is that it translates mostly phonetically across languages so, when traveling, you can get some idea and even practice a bit of reading of the local script by reading braille signs in elevators and buses. It is surprisingly difficult to find photos of those signs on the internet, even though they are literally everywhere, but, for example, this sign reads as KNOPKA V?ZOVA PERSONALA in braille, so you can infer that "КНОПКА" reads as "knopka" and not "khonka", or that З thing is not a number but actually a letter for Z. The only uncommon letter here is Ы, but it is notoriously difficult one, and you can skip it in most words and people will still understand you. It might be even more helpful with wildly different script like hebrew, but I haven't tried that myself yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I did this when I listened to Japanese songs before I knew how that writing system worked. I was always extremely confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This guy grade 2's

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think the braille is necessary. By the time someone starts to "read" it, they already know what it says.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Got blinded by reading a sign that told me to look away, got my fingertips melted by reading a sign that told me not to touch.

Went to an Ace of Base concert but stood too close to the speakers, and well… You can guess.

Edit: Ooh, or if you wanna lean into the “ironic warnings” part more than the “damaging signs” part, the concert could be The Police.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago