Cool article

[eve11]

jenlev (and others) check this out:


Phonetic Clues Hint Language Is Africa-Born:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/science/15language.html?_r=1

Comments

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Too bad they had to end it with the overused 'migrating humans destroy everything they touch' but the article was fascinating. Thanks for that!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Saw this and it's quite intriguing. The whole concept of language development blows my mind. It also blows my mind that I can't find the 'page down' button on my Mac keyboard. Or figure out how to make it tell me what plug ins are missing and how to find them. Heh.

[eve11]

"fn" up/down arrow does page up/down. Annoying though, because you can't do it with just one hand. Took me forever to find too.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm going to have to get used to the FN as a shortcut key.....It's worth it for everything else it does. :::hugs:::: laptop. :)

[eve11]

And actually if you open up your keyboard map you can map "fn" to the alt (option) key right next to the arrow pad. And you can disable the capslock button (I already did that; it's mapped to Shift for me. I always was hitting capslock by mistake)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Um...not sure how to do that as it doesn't show as an option in the keyboard section. May wait until my next Mac lesson. Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out the print screen key. Heh heh heh...... :)