How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck

Kako je bila izumljena brajica | Trenutki vizije 9 - Jessica Oreck

Translator: Nika Kotnik Reviewer: Matej Divjak

In a Moment of Vision...

[V trenutku vizije...]

Early 1800s.

V začetku 18. stoletja.

Sredi Napoleonskih vojn, sredi Evrope

It's the middle of the Napoleonic Wars in the middle of Europe,

in sredi noči.

and it's the middle of the night.

Stotnik Charles Barbier iz Napoleonove vojske,

One Captain Charles Barbier of Napoleon's army

is trying to relay a message to one of his troops.

poskuša poslati sporočilo eni izmed svojih čet.

But sending written communications to the front lines

A poslati pisno sporočilo v prvo bojno linijo

can be deadly for the recipient.

je lahko smrtonosno za prejemnika.

Lighting a candle to read the missive can give away their positions to the enemy.

Prižiganje sveče, da bi prebral poslanico, lahko izda njihov položaj.

In a moment of vision,

V trenutku vizije

Barbier pokes a series of holes into a sheet of a paper with his blade,

Barbier naredi več lukenj v kos papirja s svojim rezilom

creating a coded message that can be deciphered by fingertip,

in s tem ustvari kodirano sporočilo, ki ga lahko razvozlamo s prsti,

even in the pitch black.

celo v popolni temi.

The merits of his so-called night writing are never acknowledged by the military,

Vrednosti t. i. nočnega pisanja vojska nikoli ni prepoznala,

but in 1821, Barbier approaches the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris

a 1821 je Barbier kontaktiral Kraljevi inštitut za slepo mladino v Parizu

in the hopes that they might find a use

in upal, da bodo morda uporabili

for his innovative, new communication method.

njegovo inovativno, novo metodo komunikacije.

Tam, prezgodaj odrasli najstnik, Louis Braille, stori točno to.

There, a precocious teen by the name of Louis Braille does just that.

Louis spends the next several years improving on Barbier's idea,

Louis naslednjih nekaj let izboljšuje Barbierjevo idejo

creating an organized alphabet fitting into a six dot standardized cell.

in ustvari organizirano abecedo s standardiziranimi celicami po šest pik.

Sistem se prime.

The system catches on.

Today, Braille is the universally accepted system of writing for the blind,

Danes je Braillova pisava vsesplošno sprejeta pisava za slepe,

adapted for more than 130 languages.

prenesena v več kot 130 jezikov.