User manual FRANKLIN LM-6000

ADVANCED THESAURUS FEATURES The thesaurus in your Language Master offers meaning statements, synonyms, antonyms and compares. The meaning statements precede the other information and help you choose the correct set of synonyms, antonyms, etc. The Language Master includes "antonyms" and "compares" in its thesaurus information. Antonyms are words which mean the opposite of the word you looked up. Compares are words which are close in meaning to the word you looked up, but not close enough to be a synonym. Use a compare when you're looking for a word that approximates the one you looked up. Use a synonym when you want a word exactly like the one you looked up. Press CLEAR . Type in astute. Press ENTER . The dictionary information for "astute" appears. Press . Your screen now looks like the one below: Use the down arrow key until the screen below appears: Notice the antonym and compares on the screen above. Let's look at the example below to see what the number next to a compare means. Press ENTER . The word "SYNONYMS" is now highlighted. Use the arrow keys until "sharp" is highlighted. Press ENTER , then press . The thesaurus information for "sharp" now appears. Press the "FWD" key. You are now viewing the second thesaurus entry for the word "sharp" which is a compare for the word "astute." You may also use the "pick" method of looking up a word to see information about a word's antonym. 11 GRAMMAR GUIDE The LM-6000 comes equipped with a complete Grammar Guide. You can access the Grammar information at any time by pressing GRAMMAR -- from a dictionary entry, from the thesaurus, or from the typing screen. To see the complete list of Grammar topics, press CLEAR and then press GRAMMAR . You will see: You can now move the highlight down through this table of contents using either or Shift. When you see a topic you'd like to read about, press ENTER . Or, simply start at the top with the "Parts of Speech" chapter and read straight through, pressing FWD for each new chapter. But there's another way. The Grammar Guide has been electronically indexed to respond with the precise passage or passages relevant to your particular question. For instance, suppose you are interested transitive verbs. Type "transitive" at the "Type in the word" screen and press GRAMMAR . You will immediately see the Grammar Guide section on transitive verbs. If more than one section is relevant to your query, you will see a menu of the relevant sections. For instance, if you type "possessive" and press GRAMMAR , you will see three topics from which to choose: The Grammar Guide will accept as a query any word or phrase that is in the LM6000 dictionary. Therefore, you could type "direct object" and press GRAMMAR , be12 cause the phrase "direct object" has its own entry in the dictionary. But you couldn't type "transitive verb" or "verb that takes an object after it", because these phrases are not separately defined in this dictionary. You can even use the Grammar Guide to get information about the punctuation marks on the keyboard. For example, you may wish to know how to use the ";" (semicolon). You don't even need to know the name of it -- just type it and press GRAMMAR . If a word is not a special grammatical term like "superlative", but just an ordinary word like "albatross" or "relieve", then pressing GRAMMAR while such a word is selected will bring up just the chapters relevant to that word's part of speech. If you see a word in the Grammar Guide itself that you would like to look up in the dictionary, press ENTER to highlight words in the Grammar Guide, move the cursor to the word you want using the arrow keys, then press ENTER . Grammar Quiz Some sections of the Grammar Guide have Quiz Exercises to help you sharpen your grammar skills. A message at the end of the section tells you when these are available. Press GAMES while viewing the grammar information to see the exercises. SPEECH Speech is a powerful teaching tool with the LM-6000. You may actually listen to the word you are viewing. The Language Master has a Dynamic Pronunciation Guide (DPG) which will pronounce the individual sounds of the word you listened to. To make the learning experience even more complete, examples of a sound's usage are shown on the screen. Type the word yachting. Press SAY nounced and the screen below appears: . In a short while, the word is pro- 13 The screen you are now viewing is called the Dynamic Pronunciation GuideTM screen, or DPG screen for short. Notice that the "y" in the words "yachting" and "you" are highlighted. This is to illustrate the first sound in the word "yachting." Press ENTER to hear the first sound: y. FWD To hear the next sound of the word "yachting," press nounced and the screen below appears: . The next sound is pro- The letter "a" in "yachting" is now highlighted, as are the occurrences of the letter "a" in the examples under it. At this point you may press REV to hear the previous sound or FWD to hear the next one. You may even try using and . Notice that as you move around between the sounds of the word, the examples change. Press ENTER repeatedly to hear a word's sound more than once. Press SAY to hear the entire word pronounced again. Press BACK or CLEAR to leave the DPG screen. Speaking from a Dictionary Screen There are a few ways you may use the speech feature from a dictionary information screen. Type in the word mice. Press ENTER . The screen below appears: 14 Press SAY . The Language Master pronounces "mice", the word that you typed in, and the DPG screen for "mice" appears. To return to the dictionary response screen for "mice", press BACK . To hear the headword "mouse" pronounced, press ENTER . Notice that the word "mouse" is highlighted. Now, press SAY . The Language Master pronounces the word "mouse" and presents its DPG screen. Speaking Full Sentences stopped by yesterday. Press You can even make the Language Master speak sentences or phrases. Type we SAY . If the Language Master doesn't recognize one of the words, a correction screen will appear. After you select a correction, the words which you typed in will be spoken. Some words also have more than one pronunciation. For example, there are two pronunciations of "tear". Choose which version you want to pronounce and press ENTER . The words you typed are now pronounced. REVERSE DICTIONARY A regular dictionary gives you the meanings of a word you look up. But sometimes it's the word itself you want -- you can't look it up because you've forgotten the word. The Language Master offers several tools for finding the word you want, just from the meaning of the word or from pieces of it that you may remember. CASE 1: You remember just part of a word or phrase For instance, "There's a fancy kind of milk that you sometimes find in health stores, it's good for you in certain way, ...something-something milk". SOLUTION: Since you're sure of the "milk" part, you can use MatchMaker. Type + milk and press ENTER . (The "+" stands for the part you can't remember.) You'll see a list of all the phrases that end with the word "milk". The one you want, "acidophilus milk", heads the list. Press ENTER to look it up. CASE 2: You know a word that's similar in meaning to the one you've forgotten. For instance, there's a fancy word that means `prohibit', it's longish but you aren't sure of enough of the word to use MatchMaker. SOLUTION: Type in prohibit and look at its Thesaurus entry. Ah, there it is, "in15 terdict". To verify that this word has the shade of meaning you want, highlight it and press ENTER . CASE 3: The word has no synonyms but you know another word likely to be classed with it in some way. For instance, there's an animal whose name you can't recall but it's rather like a clam. Or, it's one of the atomic elements or whatever they call them -- hydrogen or gold would be another example. Or, it's a part of a horse, you know it but you're blocking on it -- the only part of a horse you can think of at the moment is "mane". SOLUTION: Type in "clam", or "hydrogen", or "mane" as the case may be, and look at the Classmates. CASE 4: You know more or less what the word means If you have enough further information about the word that it falls into any of Cases 1 through 3, then MatchMaker, Thesaurus, or Classmates is quickest. But maybe your memory of the word is very hazy and you can't think of a synonym or anything. SOLUTION: Search Definitions. This deserves a section of its own. Search Definitions Press MENU . Use the arrow keys to highlight the Search menu, if necessary. The Search function lets you find every word whose definition contains a word you type in. Highlight the command "Type word(s) to search on" and then press ENTER . You now have a place to type your query. Suppose you're trying to recall the special kind of insect that can give you malaria. Type "malaria" in the space provided and press ENTER . You are taken to the first entry whose definition mentions the word "malaria". Press the "FWD" key for the next such entry. Keep pressing the "FWD" key until you find the entry you want. (Ah, there it is: anopheles.) Press MENU . Notice that now there are three commands under the "Search" heading: Continue searching..., Search on "anopheles", Type word(s) to search on. The first command allows you to search for the next definition which includes the word(s) you already typed (malaria). The second command allows you to search using the headword of the definition you found (anopheles). The third command lets you type in something else to search on. 16 You can type more than one word at a time to search on. For instance, get the Search menu again and type "chinese vegetable" in the space provided, then press ENTER . You will see the first entry whose definition contains both the words "Chinese" and "vegetable". Keep pressing the "FWD" key to see all such entries. Often you may want to find an entry that mentions either of two words, not both of them. This is especially the case when you have no way of knowing exactly how the definition will be worded. In this case type your first word, then "or", then the second word, and search on these just as you would on a single word. Examples: "prehistoric or extinct"; "boat or ship". (Note: anytime you search on a noun, the Language Master automatically searches on both the singular and plural forms, so you don't have to type things like "horse or horses".) You can have up to three words in your query at one time, not counting the word "or". If you search on "boat or ship or vessel", you will find entries that mention any one of these words. If you search on "American Civil War", you will find entries that use all three of these words. You can combine the "or" kind of search with the other kind. If you search on "radioactive form or isotope", you will find all entries that use either "radioactive" and "form", or "radioactive" and "isotope". If you search on "extinct or prehistoric mammal" you will find all entries that mention either "extinct" and "mammal" or "prehistoric" and "mammal". Please bear in mind that the Language Master is searching through thousands upon thousands of definitions to find the words you want, so Search Definitions is relatively slow compared with the other functions of the LM6000. CONFUSABLES Do you occasionally have difficulty distinguishing between words which sound alike yet are spelled differently, or words which are similar? We call these types of words "Confusables". The Language Master can help you differentiate between them. Type check, then press ENTER . The screen below appears: 17 The "Conf" icon is now in bold font, indicating the availability of "Confusables". Use until the following screen appears: Each of the "Confusables" is followed by a one-word description which will differentiate between them. The descriptions will help you choose the correct word. If you want to look at a more in-depth definition for one of the words, simply "pick" it off of the screen and look at its definition. Press BACK to return to the "Confusables" screen. USER LIST The User Word List is a very handy feature. It allows you to add a list of personal words to the Language Master. You can practice with words added to the User List by using them in one of the Language Master's many educational games. Adding words to the User List There are a variety of ways to add words to the User List. Let's try the first method now. At the "Type..." screen, type the word comma and then press User List menu: LIST to view the 18 The first command is "View the list". When this command is highlighted and ENTER is pressed, you are taken into the User List. There you may view the list and/or edit it. Press ENTER . The message "List is empty" appears because there are no words in the User List yet. You are then taken back to whatever screen you had been viewing before. In this case you are back at the screen with the word "comma". Press Press LIST . The User List menu appears. until the screen below appears: You are at the second command. The bold letter "A" in the word "Add" is the mnemonic character for adding words to the User List. When you become more familiar with the command screen, you simply have to press LIST , then the mnemonic character of a command (in this case the letter "A") from anywhere in this menu to activate that command. Press ENTER or A . After the word "comma" has been added to the User List, the message "Word added" flashes on the screen. The Language Master then takes you to the screen where you were before viewing the User List menu. 19 Press CLEAR . Type the word ninja, then press A . The screen below appears: LIST . Now press the letter The above three messages represent the three choices you have if the Language Master doesn't recognize the word which you are trying to add to the User List. This doesn't necessarily mean that the word is wrong, only that the word "ninja" isn't in the Language Master's word list. You may press ENTER when the command you wish to perform is highlighted. We know that "ninja" is the correct spelling, so press ENTER at the "Add it anyway" line. The message "Word added" flashes over the screen and "ninja" has been added to the User List. The second method of adding words to the User List is "picking" a word off of a screen. Press CLEAR . Type run. Press ENTER and the screen below appears: You are now looking at the dictionary information for the word "run". Press ENTER . The screen below appears: 20 21 22 23 25 28 29 30 the Language Master flashes the message "Already used!". If you're having a difficult time guessing some anagrams, press - to jumble the word. Sometimes this helps you get more anagrams. When you've typed in every possible anagram, the Language Master flashes "Correct" one last time. Press SPACE to go on to the next round. If you can't guess all of the words or you just want to end the game, press ? . The Language Master will show you all the anagrams that you missed. Notice that the Language Master has presented a list of all of the correct anagrams. If you want to see the dictionary information for one of the words, press ENTER . This is just like the pick mode. Use the arrow keys to highlight the word you want to look up and then press ENTER again. The dictionary information for the highlighted word appears. To return to the game, press BACK . Press SPACE to go on to the next round. The following is a short description of the rest of the games. 2 Jumble -- The Language Master takes a mystery word (or a word you type in) and jumbles up the letters. The object of the game is to guess the word that is jumbled. Press GAMES to reveal the games menu. You may select the game by pressing 2 then ENTER . Next you'll need to set the game options. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. A jumbled word will appear on the Language Master's screen. When you think you know the correct order of the letters that form the mystery word, type them in. When you are finished typing in your guess, press ENTER . If you type in a correct response, the Language Master responds with "Correct word", "You win!!". Some jumbled words have more than one answer. These jumbled words will be followed by a number which indicates how many correct answers there are. If you're having a difficult time guessing the word, press - to jumble the word again. The new version may be easier to guess. When you've guessed all of the correct possible combinations, you win. Press the SPACE key to go on to the next round. If your guess is wrong, you will get another chance. If you can not decipher a jumbled word, simply press ? to see the jumbled word in its unjumbled form(s). Press to go on to the next round. SPACE 31 3 Word Builder -- This exercise asks you to type in a word or group of letters and then builds a list of words that are made up of the letters that you typed in. to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 3 then . At the "ENTER the Letters:" prompt type in a group of letters and then press ENTER . The top line of the screen will tell you how many letters which were typed in. The next lines offer the minimum size of the words which will be made from the typed in letters. The words can range in size from 3 letters to the number of letters which were typed in. After scrolling to the minimum size of the words that you wish to build, press ENTER . A word list will now be built from the letters which were typed. Press SPACE to type in another set of letters. GAMES ENTER Press 4 Flashcards -- The object of this exercise is to improve your vocabulary by studying randomly presented words. Choose the SAT word list for a good challenge. Press ENTER GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 4 then . Next you'll need to set the game options. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. The game will flash a word on the screen. You have as much time as you like to study the word. Press SPACE to go on to the next word or ENTER to see the word's definition. If you look at the definition of the word, press BACK to return to the game. 5 Spelling Bee -- The object of this exercise is to memorize the word which was flashed on the screen, and then correctly type the word in. Press ENTER GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 5 then . Next you'll need to set the game options. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. Choose the SAT word list for a good challenge. The game will flash a word on the screen. When the "ENTER your guess:" message appears, type in the word and then press ENTER . If you correctly type in the word, the message "Correct" flashes, followed by the message "You win!!", followed by a score. If you incorrectly type in the word, the Language Master responds with "Not in this dictionary!" or "Wrong word!". You then have another chance to correctly type in the word. If you don't want to make another guess, press 32 ? to see what the word was. Press SP ACE to go on to the next round. 6 Memory Challenge -- The object of the game is to memorize an expanding word list by studying the list and then typing them in the order they were given. Press ENTER GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 6 then . Next, you'll need to set the game options. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. The "NUM WORDS" option is the number of words you'll have to remember on your first turn. "SIZE" is the size of the words (3 letter words, 5 letter words, etc.) you'll have to remember. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. Memory Challenge briefly shows you a list of words (the number of which was chosen in the game options). You then type the first word in the list, then press ENTER . Type the second word of the list, then press ENTER , and so on. When you've finished correctly typing in all of the words -- in the order which they were presented -- press SPACE to add a word to the list. If you lose, press SPACE for a new list. 7 Hangman -- The object of the game is to find all of the letters hidden by question marks within a specified number of misses. Press ENTER GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 7 then . Next you'll need to set the game options. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. This game presents a group of question marks which represent unknown letters in the mystery word. The number to the right of the "guesses left" heading represents the number of wrong guesses that you have left. Guess a letter by pressing the letter you want on the keyboard. When you guess a letter you will either see that letter replace a question mark, or the letter will be placed in the "missed letters" area below the question marks. If you have already guessed a letter that you press, the game will tell you that that letter was "Already used!". The number to the right will be reduced by one each time you make an incorrect guess, unless the letter you pressed had been played previously. You may press the ENTER key to get a one letter hint. If you guess the mystery word, you win! To end the game early and see the mystery word, press ? . Press SPACE to go on to the next round. 33 8 Word Blaster -- The object of the game is to guess the mystery word before all of the hidden letters are revealed. Press ENTER GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 8 then . Next you'll need to set the game options. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. After you set the game options, letters of a mystery word pop up over question marks that represent the missing letters of the word. Press ENTER when you think you know the word. The guess screen will then appear. Type in your guess and press ENTER again. The Language Master will indicate if you are right or wrong. If you make an incorrect guess, the Language Master will return the message "Not in this dictionary!" or "Wrong word!". The game will start to reveal letters again. Pressing ENTER will allow you to take another guess at the word. To reveal the mystery word, press ? . At the end of a round, pressing SPACE will take you to the next round. If you run out of time and all of the letters of the mystery word have been revealed, you can press SPACE to go on to the next round. Whether you win or lose, the game will superimpose a score over the screen to let you know how you are doing. 9 Word Train -- All aboar-r-rd the Word Train! You and the Language Master take turns selecting letters, with the object of the game being the formation of a valid word of four or more letters. Press ENTER GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 9 then . If you complete the word first, You Win! The message "All aboard!" briefly appears and then the word train appears. After you choose a letter it appears in the boxcar. Now it is the Language Master's turn to choose. After the Language Master makes its choice, it's your turn again. (If you want the Language Master to give you a hint, press - and the game will show you the letters you may type to keep the game going.) If the letter you choose is part of a word in the Language Master's dictionary, the game will place that letter in a boxcar and the Language Master will choose another letter. If the letter you choose is not part of a word in the Language Master's dictionary, the game will flash the messages "Can't make a word from that.", "Sorry, you lost.". Word Train 34 will then show what letters had been entered before the invalid letter, form a correct word and ask you to press SPACE to go on to the next round. If you wish to quit a round while the guess screen is showing, press ? . If you choose the final letter that forms a valid word, the Word Train flashes the message "You win!" The little train then triumphantly parades across the screen with your winning word. If you don't want to watch the train move across the screen, press SPACE . If you want to go on to the next round, press SPACE . 10 Deduction -- The object of the game is to deduce the mystery letters within the specified number of tries (set at the game options). Press GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 1 then 0 then ENTER . Next you'll need to set the game options. There are three headings on the Deduction game options screen: SIZE, LETTERS, TRIES. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. Franklin's Deduction is a logic game rather than a word game. In this example version, the game options have been set like so: SIZE: 4, LETTERS: 6, TRIES: 10. The Language Master makes four selections at random from the six letters "abcdef". For instance, it might choose: caaf When you begin play, all you will see is: Guess 1/10 ???? Choose from a-f? You have to guess which letters the Language Master chose and in what order. At each turn, you enter some four-letter combination of your own choosing. The Language Master will then tell you how many of the letters you guessed were correct and in perfect position, and how many were correct but misplaced -- that is, out of position. So for instance, if the secret code that the Language Master picked is "caaf" and you guess "bbbf" then the screen will show: Perfect 1 Misplaced 0 The number which represents the amount of guesses that you have left (beneath the word "Guess") then reduces by one. "Perfect 1" means you guessed one letter perfectly in its correct position, in this case "f", though the Language Master doesn't tell you which one of your four positioned letter guesses is the correct one. If you had guessed "fbbb" the screen would have shown: Perfect 0 Misplaced 1 35 The "Misplaced 1" means that one of the letters you guessed, in this case "f", is among the letters in the secret code (caaf) that the Language Master picked, but that the letter occurs in the wrong position in your guess. If you guess "eaae" the screen will show: Perfect 2 Misplaced 0 Both "a"s are correct letters in correct position. If you guess "aaee" the screen will show: Perfect 1 Misplaced 1 One of the "a"s is in its correct position and one is out of position. If you guess "aaaa" the screen will show: Perfect 2 Misplaced 0 The "Perfect 2" refers to the two middle "a"s that match the two "a"s in the secret code (caaf) perfectly. This match "uses up" the two "a"s in the secret code, so to speak, so that the remaining two "a"s in your guess are treated as non-matches (to "c" and "f") rather than as misplaced matches; hence Misplaced 0. Now, let us take a different example with a new secret code. The Language Master has picked a new code, and you guess "abcd". The Language Master answers: Perfect 0 Misplaced 4 This means that you correctly guessed all four letters that the Language Master chose, but that their positions are completely scrambled. Now you guess "bacd". The Language Master answers: Perfect 2 Misplaced 2 Since the only thing in your guess that changed is the order of "a" and "b", this means that the secret code must begin "ba??", with the last two letters being "c" and "d" in some order. But the "Misplaced 2" tells you that "c" and "d" are out of position in your guess, and since at this point the only other order they could be in is "dc", the secret code must be "badc". If you want to go on to the next round, press SP ACE . 11 Word Deduction -- The object of the game is to deduce the mystery word within the specified number of tries (set at the "game options" screen). Press GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 1 then ENTER . Next you'll need to set the game options. There are three 1 then 36 headings on the Word Deduction "game options" screen: WORDS, SIZE, TRIES. Please refer to the beginning of the games section on how to set the options. Press ENTER when all of the options have been set. The game now begins! Press GAMES and then reselect the Word Deduction game. Set the options to the following: "Enter your own". The size of the word will be however many letters we type in, so there is no choice at the SIZE option. Now set the number of tries at 15. Press the ENTER key to set these options. The Language Master then presents a screen which asks you to "ENTER game word". Type the word deer. Press ENTER . Your screen would look like the one below: We are now ready to enter our first attempt. The first underline is flashing. This indicates which space a letter will be entered into. We type raad. The screen looks like the one below: Oops! We accidently typed in an "a" at the second letter instead of an "e". No problem; we'll just press twice. (The right arrow and left arrow keys may be used to move from one letter to another before the enter key is pressed. As we move around in the word with these arrow keys, flashing letters indicate the ability to change that letter to another letter.) We may now type e to change the first "a" to the letter we really want. 37 We now press the ENTER key to register our first attempt. The following screen appears: The first line now indicates (by the "1" to the left of "read") our first attempt. The "Perfect 1" to the right of the word indicates that 1 letter is in Perfect position, that is, one letter is exactly where it is supposed to be. The "Misplaced 2" message indicates that two letters are present yet misplaced in the mystery word. 2/15 means that the next guess will be our second of fifteen attempts. We are now ready for our next attempt. Let's try typing in the word road. Press the ENTER key. The screen below appears: OK. Since the only letter we changed in the word was "e" to "o", and the chart has changed from "Perfect 1" to "Perfect 0", the letter "e" must have been in Perfect po38 sition. Notice also that the number to the left of "road" is a two, indicating that "road" is our second attempt. Let's make our third attempt. We know that the "e" from the first attempt was in perfect position. We also know that two letters exist in the word out of the letters "r", "a", "d". Type in the word reed, then press the ENTER key. Your screen now looks like the one below: Hmm. All of the letters of the mystery word are included in the word "reed". Perfect 2 Misplaced 2 indicates that two of the letters are in perfect position, while the other two letters indicated by the Misplaced 2 message are, indeed, in the word, yet in the wrong position. It is simply a matter of finding which two letters are perfectly placed and switching around the other two misplaced letters. We know that the first "e" is in the Perfect position. Since, at our second turn, the "r" and the "d" were present in the word, yet Misplaced equalled 2, we can safely deduce that the two letters need to be switched. Type in the word deer, then press ENTER . The message "You win!!" superimposes over the screen for a short period of time; a scoreboard then flashes over the screen and the next screen appears: You have now won your first game of Word Deduction. This game was just meant 39 as an introduction. The game is, however, much more difficult when the mystery word is really a mystery word. Try it again; only this time let the Language Master pick the mystery word for you. Oh, good luck. Press SPACE at the end of a round to go on to the next round. During the game, if you become frustrated, you may press ? to have the mystery word revealed. You may also change the options which are being used by pressing GAMES , reselecting the game and resetting the options. 12 Letris -- WARNING: This game has been known to cause laboratory subjects to suffer from fits of fun. The object of Letris is to form words from the letters which drop down from the top of the screen. Press GAMES to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 1 then 2 then ENTER . Since there are no game options to set, the game immediately begins. Words may be formed vertically or horizontally. However, the word being formed must stand alone. Don't let the stacks of letters get too high; if a stack of letters reaches the top of the screen, you lose. The longer the words you form, the higher the scores you receive. Points are awarded by squaring the number of letters in a word which is formed. For example, a 2 letter word is worth 4 points, a 3 letter word is worth 9 points, a 4 letter word is worth 16 points and so on. Use the left and right arrow keys to move the letters around the screen before they hit bottom. Use the down arrow key to drop a letter into place. 40 ADDENDUM This section of the manual contains miscellaneous information which you may find useful. FUNCTION KEY GUIDE REV : : In dictionary mode, REV browses back to the previous dictionary entry. In thesaurus mode, REV browses back through synonym groups. In dictionary mode, FWD browses forward to the next dictionary entry. In thesaurus mode, FWD browses forward through synonym groups. : Displays the Grammar Guide Menu. Displays a context sensitive help screen. General operating instructions are available at the "Type in..." screen. Specific help is available at other modes of operation. Displays the games menu. Backs you through screens you've viewed. Used as a backspace key when you are typing in a word. In most cases "BACK" returns you to : FWD GRAMMAR HELP GAMES BACK : : the previous screen. "BACK" also turns off the "PICK" highlight and gets you out of the "HELP" screen. ENTER : : : Used to activate commands. Activates "pick" mode. Selects "pick" word. Returns you to the "Type in..." prompt from any screen. Erases an entire word from the "Type in..." screen. Presents the Search Definitions and Setup commands or game menu if in games. CLEAR MENU Arrow keys: When you are typing in a word, pressing will erase one character at a time. The "RIGHT ARROW" key may be used to view text which has scrolled off of the screen. You may use and to take you from one command heading to another within a menu. The up and down arrow keys scroll information up and down a line. Pressing shift and down arrow scrolls the information down one page, while pressing shift and up arrow scrolls the information up one page. 41 Technical Specifications Contents: -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary -- Merriam-Webster Thesaurus -- Franklin Classmates -- Context sensitive help Microprocessor: 16-bit V20 with a Franklin proprietary master control chip ROM (Read Only Memory): 2.5 Megabytes RAM (Read/Write Memory): 32 Kilobytes LCD Display: 80 x 240 continuous pixel Keyboard: 61 keys with permanent molded legends Size: 14.3 cm x 14 cm x 2 cm Weight: 8.7 oz. Batteries: 4 x AAA AC adaptor jack: Your Franklin product is equipped with a standard 3.5 mm AC/ DC adaptor jack for use with a 9-volt 200-300 milliamp adaptor. _ + The above international symbol applies to the AC/DC adaptor that you purchase for your Franklin product. It indicates that the inner core of the plug should be negative and that the outer portion of the core should be positive. The symbol found on your AC/DC adaptor should match the one shown above. If it doesn't, or if the adaptor you purchased doesn't have such a symbol, confirm compatibility with the store where you purchased the adaptor. Headphone jack: Your Franklin product is also equipped with a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack for use with a standard impedance 8 Ohm headset. Software Technology Features Franklin's proprietary dictionary compression, retrieval, spelling correction, and user-interface. 42 Cleaning Instructions To clean the surface of the Language Master, use a mild household glass cleaner. Spray the cleaner onto a paper towel and gently wipe the surface of the Language Master. IMPORTANT: Never spray a cleaner directly onto the Language Master. In Case of Trouble The Language Master is designed to provide many years of reliable service. The most common sources of trouble are: -- Weak batteries -- Improperly installed batteries -- LCD contrast not adjusted properly Please check the above problems first. NOTE: Weak batteries may cause the Language Master to behave strangely, and possibly display incorrect or meaningless information on the screen. IMPORTANT: If your Language Master contains rechargeable batteries and an AC adaptor is being used for power, the batteries will not charge while the unit is plugged in. PERSISTENT TROUBLE? Contact the place of purchase. ALWAYS avoid extremes of heat, cold, or humidity when using or storing your Language Master. 43 A AC adaptor 42 anagrams 28 antonyms 11 B Battery low warning 1 blink speed 26 C choosing text 10 cleaning instructions 43 compares 11 contrast, screen 2 crossword correction 5 customization 24 D deduction 35 default font 25 DPG 14 Dynamic Pronunciation Guide 14 games, word blaster 34 games, word builder 32 games, word deduction 36 games, word train 34 H hangman 33 help/information 2 highlighting text 10 J jumble 31 L large font 25 large type 25 letris 40 M meaning statements 11 memory challenge 33 message flash 27 mnemonic character 19 F flashcards 32 font, default 25 font, large 25 G games, anagrams 28 games, anagrams demo 28 games, deduction 35 games, flashcards 32 games, hangman 33 games, jumble 31 games, letris 40 games, memory challenge 33 games, option screens 27 games, score 28 games, selection 28 games, speed 27 games, spelling bee 32 P personal list 18 phrases, finding 8 pick, compares 11 pick, user list 20 picking words 10 power sources 1 pronouncing phrases 15 S SAT word list 27, 32 screen contrast 2 similar words 17 spelling bee 32 T troubleshooting 43 type, default 26 type, large 25 44 U user list, change name 24 user list, clearing 21 user list, combining 24 user list, erasing 21 user list, labeling 23 user list, naming lists 23 user list, select list 24 user list, separating 22 user list, split list menu 23 W warranty 46 wild card correction 5 word blaster 34 word builder 32 word deduction 36 word history 9 word sounds 14 word train 34 45 Franklin Electronic Publishers One Franklin Plaza Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 This product is edited and maintained by Merriam-Webster, Inc. with linguistic technology by Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. This manual is copyrighted 1991-1992 and the compilation of and certain programs resident in the product are copyrighted 1986-1992 by Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907. All rights reserved. © 1986-1991. All rights reserved. Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. © 1989. All rights reserved. Merriam-Webster, Inc. Franklin, Language Master, Letris, WordBlaster, Memory Challenge, SpellBlaster II and Word Train are trademarks of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. BeSTspeech T-T-S, Copyright 1988 Berkeley Speech Technologies, Inc. SAT is a trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board. This unit may change operating modes due to Electro-static Discharge. Normal operation of this unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key, ON/OFF , or by removing/replacing batteries. FRANKLIN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHERS, INC. Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 P/N 7201451 FSE-28002-00 D U.S. Pat. 4,490,811; 5,007,019; 4,830,618; 4,891,775; PATENTS PENDING 46