lencho
Junior Nomad
Posts: 91
Registered: 1-16-2005
Location: Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de EU
Member Is Offline
Mood: Somnoliento
|
|
Ah, those corrections!
Observe, o foreros, and decide what's crazier, that Goat shows up Santiago by correcting him... with a "correction" which itself has no less than
four errors in the Spanish?
Or that Bob praises Goat's "helpfulness"? 
Or that I post this comment? 
Gotta say, in spite of any complaints I may vent about this place, it's indubitably entertaining. 
[Edited on 1-25-2022 by lencho]
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
"...they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they
were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
"My gas stove identifies as electric." Anonymous
|
|
|
pacificobob
Super Nomad
Posts: 2237
Registered: 4-23-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
Your including an inverted question mark in your list of errors? Jeez...🤔 I'd wager you may at one time have omitted punctuation.
[Edited on 1-25-2022 by pacificobob]
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64479
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
What is the world coming to?
Yesterday, I didn't even bother to correct a Nomad's spelling of 'Guerro' to Guerrero (Negro)!
LOL
|
|
|
pauldavidmena
Super Nomad
Posts: 1686
Registered: 5-23-2013
Location: Centerville, MA, USA
Member Is Offline
|
|
I have a weekly intercambio with my Spanish teacher via Zoom. When one of us needs further clarification, we use Zoom chat, but my U.S. keyboard
doesn't easily accommodate accented vowels, or the letter "ñ", making it occasionally confusing - or comical.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64479
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena  | | I have a weekly intercambio with my Spanish teacher via Zoom. When one of us needs further clarification, we use Zoom chat, but my U.S. keyboard
doesn't easily accommodate accented vowels, or the letter "ñ", making it occasionally confusing - or comical. |
Have you tried holding down the Alt key and pressing 164 to get an ñ ?
Another version is Alt + 0241 to get ñ
Letter Letter Type Alt Code
¡ Inverted Exclamation Point... 0161
¿ Inverted Question Mark...... 0191
Á Uppercase Accent Acute.... 0193
É Uppercase Accent Acute..... 0201
Í Uppercase Accent Acute.... 0205
Ñ Uppercase Ligature.......... 0209
Ó Uppercase Accent Acute.... 0211
Ú Uppercase Accent Acute.... 0218
Ü Uppercase Accent Diaeresis 0220
á Lowercase Accent Acute..... 0225
é Lowercase Accent Acute.... 0233
í Lowercase Accent Acute.... 0237
ñ Lowecase Ligature.......... 0241
ó Lowercase Accent Acute.... 0243
ú Lowercase Accent Acute.... 0250
ü Lowercase Accent Diaeresis 0252
|
|
|
pauldavidmena
Super Nomad
Posts: 1686
Registered: 5-23-2013
Location: Centerville, MA, USA
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by lencho | | Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena | | ...my U.S. keyboard doesn't easily accommodate accented vowels, or the letter "ñ", making it occasionally confusing - or comical.
|
You might be surprised at how easily it accomodates additional characters. Depending on the operating system, you can tell settings that you want to
use the "U.S. International" keyboard layout, which slightly modifies the behavior of the quote and tilde keys; if I want to type "ñ", I just hit the
tilde and the "n". An accented "á" just requires hitting the apostrophe before I hit the "a", and inverted punctuation marks (¿¡) just require the
ALT key with the normal punctuation mark.
The nice thing about this setup is that you don't have to re-label any keys and everything stays in the same place.
|
Switching to U.S. International from U.S. English (the default on Ubuntu) was a great suggestion. It wasn´t very intuitive, but fortunately Ubuntu
has a very active user forum that pointed me in the right direction (i.e. using ¨dconf-editor¨).
| Code: | pablo@gaviota=> echo ¨mañana¨
¨mañana¨ |
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64479
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by lencho |
That's a viable option, but it gets complicated if you don't have a numeric keypad on your keyboard.
Out of curiosity, why do you choose that method over simply adjusting your keyboard configuration as suggested above? I go transparently from my Win
10 laptop keyboard (no numeric pad) to Chromebook (even more limited keyboard), using the same 2 keystrokes for the Spanish "extended" characters
regardless of the platform, which allows nearly full-speed touch-typing in either English or Spanish. |
How do you adjust the keyboard?
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 17292
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by lencho |
That's a viable option, but it gets complicated if you don't have a numeric keypad on your keyboard.
Out of curiosity, why do you choose that method over simply adjusting your keyboard configuration as suggested above? I go transparently from my Win
10 laptop keyboard (no numeric pad) to Chromebook (even more limited keyboard), using the same 2 keystrokes for the Spanish "extended" characters
regardless of the platform, which allows nearly full-speed touch-typing in either English or Spanish. |
How do you adjust the keyboard? |
if you use an accessory keyboard with your laptop, then buy a spanish keyboard. keyboards are cheap, like $30 usd.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64479
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
... and so, that is why I am doing it the easy way with Alt codes.
Goat, I am on a desk top (but do have an Android phone I post from as well).
Lencho, I am using Windows 10 and browse with Chrome, usually. At my age, I just seek easy.
The letters I use mostly are Alt + 164 (ñ), 160 (á), 163 (ú), 162 (ó), 130 (é), 161 (í), and rarely: 0252 (ü).
I do try to spell places in Baja correctly, and the accents are important as well as the correct spelling of places like: Los Barriles (not Barilles),
Loreto (not Loretto), Mulegé (not Muleje), Santa Rosalillita (not Rosaliita), Alfonsina's (not Alphonsina's), Puertecitos (not Puertocitos), Santo
Tomás (not Thomas), etc.
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 17292
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by David K | ... and so, that is why I am doing it the easy way with Alt codes.
Goat, I am on a desk top (but do have an Android phone I post from as well).
|
re phones, I assume android is like iphone. my iphone keyboard swaps languages at touch of a button.
re desktops,... the keyboard plugs into your desktop. easy to swap keyboard. unplug old one, plug in new one
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
|
|
|
pacificobob
Super Nomad
Posts: 2237
Registered: 4-23-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
My android phone swaps between english[US] and spanish[US] by swiping the space bar thingy. That function was changed some in settings.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64479
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
On my phone, just holding down the English letter changes it to the Spanish. n becomes ñ, a becomes á, etc.
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
