Franklin LANGUAGE MASTER DMQ-210 User manual
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USER’S GUIDE
L
ANGUAGE
M
ASTER
DMQ-210
Electronic Publishers
Words from Collins Dictionaries
1
Key Guide
MENU
GAMES
CONF
HELP
CLEAR
ON/OFF
?
✽
BACK
ENTER
SPACE
Shows the main menu.
Shows a help message.
Shows the games menu.
Shows confusable words.
Clears to
ENTER your word:
.
Turns the product on or off.
Goesbackorerasesatypedletter.
Types a
?
to stand in for a letter. In
games, reveals the answer(s).
Types an asterisk to stand for a
series of letters. In games, gives
a hint or shuffles letters.
Enters a word, selects a menu
item, or starts a highlight in text.
Types a space or pages down.
Scrolls up or down or types
punctuation.
Moves the cursor or highlight.
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Getting Started
Thefirsttimeyouusethisproduct,followthese
steps.
Installing the Batteries
1. Turn the unit over.
2. Slide the battery cover off in the di-
rection of the arrow.
3. Place the four AAA batteries into the
cavity following the diagram inside
the case.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Starting the Language Master
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears.
2. PressCLEARifyouwanttostopthedemo.
Note:
You can always view
ENTER your
word:
by pressing CLEAR.
▼▼
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✓Disabling the Demonstration
You probably do not want to view the
demo every time you turn this product
on. To disable the demo, press MENU
and then until the arrow is beside
Disable Demo
. Press ENTER to disable
it. To enable it, select
Enable Demo
.
✓Help is at Hand
At almost any screen, you can view an
appropriate help message by pressing
HELP. To exit help, press BACK.
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more text.
Getting Started
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Changing Settings
Youcanchange the font,shutofftiming, and
screen contrast. The shutoff timing is how
longtheproductstays on if you forget to turn
it off.
1. Press MENU.
2. Press to point to
Set Font
,
Set
Shutoff
, or
Set Contrast
.
3. Press ENTER to view the settings.
4. Press or to point to a setting.
If you selected
Set Contrast
, press
or repeatedly.
5. Press ENTER to select it.
6. Press CLEAR when finished.
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✓Typing Punctuation
At
ENTER your word:
, you can type an
apostrophe by pressing or a full stop
by pressing .
Note:
These punctuation
marks cannot begin a word.
Mostdefinitionsincludepartsofspeechlabels,
inflected forms, and hyphenation points. Here
is how to look up a word.
1. Press CLEAR.
2. Type a word (e.g.,
gesticulate
).
To erase a letter, press BACK.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press repeatedly to scroll down.
Or press SPACE to page down.
5. Press CLEAR when finished.
Finding Definitions
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✓Correcting Misspellings
When you enter a misspelled word, or a
correctly spelled word not in this dictio-
nary, a correction list appears. For ex-
ample, enter “kawphy” and you see this.
Place the marker next to the correct word,
if needed. Then press ENTER to view its
definition.
✓Viewing Multiple Forms
When you enter a word with more than
one form in the dictionary, a list appears.
For example, enter “am” and you see this.
Press to point to the form you want.
Then press ENTER to view its definition.
Finding Definitions
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Viewing Confusables™
Confusables are commonly confused words.
When you see CONF flash at the top of the
screen,thatwordhasConfusables.Trythisex-
ample.
1. At
ENTER your word:
, type
write
.
2. Press ENTER.
Notice the CONF flash in the upper-
right of the screen.
3. Press CONF.
An identifying word follows each
Confusable.
4. Press to view more.
✓Quick Confusables
If you already know that a word has Con-
fusables, press CONF rather than EN-
TER after typing it at
ENTER your word:
.
You’ll go directly to its Confusables list.
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To find unknown letters in words, type a
question mark for each unknown letter.
1. At
ENTER your word:
, type a word
with ?’s for letters.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching
words, if any.
4. Press ENTER to go to the definition.
5. Press BACK to go back to the list.
Finding Letters
✓Help for Word Games
You can use ?’s to help solve crossword
puzzles and other word games.
For example, if the second letter of a
five-letter word is H and its last letter is
W, enter
?h??w
and then scroll down to
view possible answers.
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Finding Letters
To find prefixes, suffixes, or other fragments of
aword,type one or more asterisksinthe word.
Eachasteriskstands for any number ofletters.
1. Type a word with one or more ✻’s.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press ENTER to view a definition.
5. Press BACK to return to the list.
6. Press CLEAR when finished.
✓Letter Finding Tips
You can type both ?’s and ✻’s in a word.
However, if you type either at the start of
the word, finding matching words may
take a while.
Note:
You do not need to
type consecutive ✽’s or an ✽next to a ?.
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