{"id":1029,"date":"2011-03-04T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2011-03-04T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:23:40","slug":"high-school-french-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2011\/03\/04\/high-school-french-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"High School French inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1036\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110453.JPG\" alt=\"DJB_110453\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110453.JPG 480w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110453-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110453-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110453-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>Dave \u00a0took French in High School, but what he learned then\u00a0was far from what he needed today when he had to set\u00a0up a computer in French.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0setting up a computer,\u00a0installing the keyboard is a first step.\u00a0 The French keyboard is different from the English keyboard.\u00a0 For example, the &#8220;w&#8221; on the French keyboard is where the &#8220;z&#8221; is on the English keyboard. Many other keystrokes are different as well.\u00a0 So from this initial step, there was the challenge of finding the right keys to spell words correctly.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest part was clicking on &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221; when those were the only buttons.\u00a0 The hardest part was\u00a0figuring out how to respond when the\u00a0boxes\u00a0had\u00a0choices.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1038\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110455-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DJB_110455\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110455-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110455-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110455-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/DJB_110455.JPG 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s solution:\u00a0 He\u00a0set up two computers simultaneously &#8211; one\u00a0in English and one\u00a0in French.\u00a0 Most of the buttons and boxes\u00a0were in the same order, so he could read the choices in English, and make the choices on each.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for Dave to have wisdom for situations such as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave \u00a0took French in High School, but what he learned then\u00a0was far from what he needed today when he had to set\u00a0up a computer in French.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1718,1700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-computers","category-daves-ministry-computers","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}