tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post6896213719223585545..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: LanguagesYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-21179860172475786232010-08-14T13:40:17.341+03:002010-08-14T13:40:17.341+03:00so my fears are vindicated the future for keyboard...so my fears are vindicated the future for keyboards has arrived <br />- <br />I'm not sure it sounds alluring to me<br />(the second half of the piece dealing with kids' games does definitely not).<br /><br />The Promise and Peril of ‘Smart’ Keyboards<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/magazine/15FOB-medium-t.html<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-49350178516654392832010-08-13T19:05:16.305+03:002010-08-13T19:05:16.305+03:00Thanks Yaacov
I am glad for having been told that ...Thanks Yaacov<br />I am glad for having been told that it is done by good ol' mechanical means and not as I had imagined that maybe there were lightened keys or any other sophisticated stuff - it had me quite worried on not being up to date ;-)<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-17842070384947582062010-08-13T17:41:35.357+03:002010-08-13T17:41:35.357+03:00Silke -
The technicians can put as many languages...Silke -<br /><br />The technicians can put as many languages into the innards as they wish. The standard keyboard in Israel has English and Hebrew, or English & Hebrew & Arabic. Back in the old days when I had 50-some Russian speakers working under me I was often amused to see their keyboards which had English and Hebrew, and stickers with Cyrilic. One fellow also had Ukrainian, I remember. Kind of got dizzy after a while.<br /><br />Milton: Mitzpe Hayamim.<br /><br />DJG - so why didn't you introduce yourself?Yaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-14231901531271225522010-08-13T14:20:24.654+03:002010-08-13T14:20:24.654+03:00Bryan
thanks for helping me ask the question diffe...Bryan<br />thanks for helping me ask the question differently (I have been all through Google and Apple without seeing an image enlightening me) Sorry to be so obnoxious but it touches on what my colleagues in other countries may have had to cope with and I never asked the question.<br /><br />so, belatedly, here it comes:<br /><br />how do the keys look like on a keyboard suited for multiscript typing?<br /><br />Or does it stay all Latin and you have to know Hebrew or Russian or Greek all by heart?<br />I can imagine how it might be done on a touch screen like the iPad's but on a real physical keyboard more than two languages would make it look pretty crowded and you can't be all of you perfectly blind typers in several languages or are you? or do you go on with the Latin keyboard and just have to know which letter stands for which in the other alphabet? But if I imagine myself doing that synhronizing in modern Greek it seems awfully taxing.<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-80572715733298244832010-08-13T03:23:36.008+03:002010-08-13T03:23:36.008+03:00Silke: For reference, this is what a Hebrew keyboa...Silke: For reference, this is what a Hebrew keyboard layout looks like: http://www.androidwiki.de/wp-content/uploads/Hebrew_keyboard_layout.png<br /><br />And a Russian keyboard layout: http://frontype.com/keyboarding/540px-Computer-keyboard-Russian.svg.png<br /><br />Or at least, that's what my keyboard looks like when I set it to Hebrew or Russian. (Apple computers can switch pretty seamlessly from one to another. Very convenient for typing in Hebrew, in my opinion.)Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099017972456573744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-18045821162144031682010-08-13T01:26:03.252+03:002010-08-13T01:26:03.252+03:00Great to have you back!
I walked past you this ev...Great to have you back!<br /><br />I walked past you this evening on the way home from Maariv and breathed a sigh of relief that you would be back onlone!<br /><br />DJGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-11150291422275074762010-08-12T21:27:41.103+03:002010-08-12T21:27:41.103+03:00Where is the calm and tranquility? I'm a cons...Where is the calm and tranquility? I'm a constant reader and your secret is safe with me. And with whoever reads the comment section.miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12179929136659788657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-77661862529242893052010-08-12T21:09:24.043+03:002010-08-12T21:09:24.043+03:00Asaf
thanks, but then the keys must show several l...Asaf<br />thanks, but then the keys must show several letters?<br /><br />also I remember when I first started to type a lot in English how long it took me to get up to speed though I always did both German and English on a German keyboard. Still the common sequences of letters are different enough that new sequences of movements have to be get trained into automatic.<br /><br />I agree on the not liking it ;-)<br /><br />it feels like one's favourite pub closes down.<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-2654796022528705622010-08-12T20:15:11.351+03:002010-08-12T20:15:11.351+03:00Silke
If you press 'control-shift' you swi...Silke<br />If you press 'control-shift' you switch alphabets back and forth.<br /><br />Yaacov, glad to have you back. I do not like it when you need time off. <br /><br />AsafAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-54885716145019893512010-08-12T19:35:40.692+03:002010-08-12T19:35:40.692+03:00glad you had a good time and glad to "have&qu...glad you had a good time and glad to "have" you back<br /><br />how does an Israeli keyboard look like?<br />and how a Russian Israeli English keyboard?<br />and what will happen to keyboards if your friendship with the Chinese continues to bloom?<br /><br />or do you have different keyboards for different languages?<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com