315: Braille - Revision history

Lettherebedarklight: /* Trivia */ add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

2025-12-15T09:00:19Z

‎Trivia: add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

Theusaf: Reverted edits by TheusafBOT (talk) to last revision by 45.13.235.80

2025-12-08T06:45:13Z

Reverted edits by TheusafBOT (talk) to last revision by 45.13.235.80

TheusafBOT: Reverted edit 392635 by 45.13.235.80 to 370264

2025-11-28T05:26:28Z

Reverted edit 392635 by 45.13.235.80 to 370264

45.13.235.80: Added trivia section to note the nonstandardness of the comic's braille

2025-11-28T05:26:18Z

Added trivia section to note the nonstandardness of the comic's braille

Bb777 at 14:59, 25 March 2025

2025-03-25T14:59:21Z

172.70.90.209 at 19:46, 9 October 2024

2024-10-09T19:46:26Z

Pego: added a link to the wiki page for the show "Futurama" where it is mentioned

2024-10-09T16:46:28Z

added a link to the wiki page for the show "Futurama" where it is mentioned

172.71.242.177: /* Explanation */ Correcting the punctuation part, however... Forgot to retain that change.

2024-02-27T17:40:24Z

‎Explanation: Correcting the punctuation part, however... Forgot to retain that change.

172.69.194.83: Undo revision 335897 by 42.book.addict (talk) You didn't read the 'fake Citation needed' text, nor my explanation that "cn" is a redirect...

2024-02-27T17:24:40Z

Undo revision 335897 by 42.book.addict (talk) You didn't read the 'fake Citation needed' text, nor my explanation that "cn" is a redirect...

42.book.addict at 17:06, 27 February 2024

2024-02-27T17:06:42Z

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 :[A sign reads "Third Floor Office" with braille print underneath. Cueball is reading the braille.]
 :Cueball (thinking): s-i-g-h-t-e-d-p-e-o-p-l-e-s-u-c-k ... Hey!
 {{comic discussion}}
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 :[A sign reads "Third Floor Office" with braille print underneath. Cueball is reading the braille.]
 :Cueball (thinking): s-i-g-h-t-e-d-p-e-o-p-l-e-s-u-c-k ... Hey!
 {{comic discussion}}
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 :[A sign reads "Third Floor Office" with braille print underneath. Cueball is reading the braille.]
 :Cueball (thinking): s-i-g-h-t-e-d-p-e-o-p-l-e-s-u-c-k ... Hey!
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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 {{w|Braille}} is a writing system for the blind and {{w|Visual impairment|visually impaired}} using bumps on a paper, slate, etc. However, since most sighted people have no need for braille, and because braille messages may need to convey purely-visual information to blind people, the braille message may be adjusted from the original message. In this case, however, it acts as a jab toward people who are not blind, saying that "sighted people suck," which is obviously not something you would typically see ([[559: No Pun Intended|no pun intended]]) on informational signs.<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[285:_Wikipedian_Protester|''SIGHTation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup> Similar "translations" can be found when one deciphers the alien translations on nearly all signs in the TV show {{w|Futurama}}.
-The title text shows a practical (and more realistic) example of where regular text and braille text may differ. As the visually impaired cannot see color,{{Citation needed}} the label would need to identify some other defining feature of the button in question, such as the given measurement.
+The title text shows a practical (and more realistic) example of where regular text and braille text may differ. As the visually impaired cannot see color,<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[285:_Wikipedian_Protester|''SIGHTation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup> the label would need to identify some other defining feature of the button in question, such as the given measurement.
 ==Transcript==

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 ==Explanation==
-{{w|Braille}} is a writing system for the blind and {{w|Visual impairment|visually impaired}} using bumps on a paper, slate, etc. However, since most sighted people have no need for braille, and because braille messages may need to convey purely-visual information to blind people, the braille message may be adjusted from the original message. In this case, however, it acts as a jab toward people who are not blind, saying that "sighted people suck," which is obviously not something you would typically see ([[559: No Pun Intended|no pun intended]]) on informational signs.<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[285:_Wikipedian_Protester|''SIGHTation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup> Similar "translations" can be found when one deciphers the alien translations on nearly all signs in the TV show [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama| Futurama]].
+{{w|Braille}} is a writing system for the blind and {{w|Visual impairment|visually impaired}} using bumps on a paper, slate, etc. However, since most sighted people have no need for braille, and because braille messages may need to convey purely-visual information to blind people, the braille message may be adjusted from the original message. In this case, however, it acts as a jab toward people who are not blind, saying that "sighted people suck," which is obviously not something you would typically see ([[559: No Pun Intended|no pun intended]]) on informational signs.<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[285:_Wikipedian_Protester|''SIGHTation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup> Similar "translations" can be found when one deciphers the alien translations on nearly all signs in the TV show {{w|Futurama}}.
 The title text shows a practical (and more realistic) example of where regular text and braille text may differ. As the visually impaired cannot see color,{{Citation needed}} the label would need to identify some other defining feature of the button in question, such as the given measurement.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{w|Braille}} is a writing system for the blind and {{w|Visual impairment|visually impaired}} using bumps on a paper, slate, etc. However, since most sighted people have no need for braille, and because braille messages may need to convey purely-visual information to blind people, the braille message may be adjusted from the original message. In this case, however, it acts as a jab toward people who are not blind, saying that "sighted people suck," which is obviously not something you would typically see ([[559: No Pun Intended|no pun intended]]) on informational signs.{{cn}} Similar "translations" can be found when one deciphers the alien translations on nearly all signs in Futurama.
+{{w|Braille}} is a writing system for the blind and {{w|Visual impairment|visually impaired}} using bumps on a paper, slate, etc. However, since most sighted people have no need for braille, and because braille messages may need to convey purely-visual information to blind people, the braille message may be adjusted from the original message. In this case, however, it acts as a jab toward people who are not blind, saying that "sighted people suck," which is obviously not something you would typically see ([[559: No Pun Intended|no pun intended]]) on informational signs.<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[285:_Wikipedian_Protester|''SIGHTation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup> Similar "translations" can be found when one deciphers the alien translations on nearly all signs in Futurama.
-The title text shows a practical (and more realistic) example of where regular text and braille text may differ. As the visually impaired cannot see color,{{cn}} the label would need to identify some other defining feature of the button in question, such as the given measurement.
+The title text shows a practical (and more realistic) example of where regular text and braille text may differ. As the visually impaired cannot see color{{Citation needed}}, the label would need to identify some other defining feature of the button in question, such as the given measurement.
 ==Transcript==