SOME ASPECTS OF GERMAN CONTRACTED BRAILL E by Karl Brit z I really doubt whether it is of great value to those of you who don't know the German language to explain all th e rules which are now valid, but let me touch on two of them . In the older system, it was very important to label contractions, which was done mainly by a hyphen . If thi s contraction was part of a larger word, this hyphen had to be put before and behind the contraction . In the new system bot h hyphens are omitted . Contractions composed of two signs can be applied without any precautions . We have contraction s consisting of two as well as of one character and the contractions consisting of one character now have to be preceded b y dot 2 if they are part of a larger word . Of course if they occur as a single word, for instance the word "end", only a "u " is written between two blank cells . This is a very great simplification and it is now possible because of this and othe r simplifications also to learn the new
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