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How can I quickly and conveniently write Peoplese special characters on a computer with MS Windows?
Why is there a ® by the word "Peoplese" on the home page?
How do I use the gratis Peoplese MS Word spellcheck feature? (click on link)
To what languages are Peoplese indebted?
Why isn't my language among the translations?
Why doesn't Peoplese consider Europe a continent, the Mediterranean a Sea, etc.?
Where can we view a sample of Peoplese writting?
What is the origin of Peoplese language?
How can I
quickly
and conveniently write Peoplese special characters on a computer with MS
Windows?
First create each Peoplese
punctuation mark (mid-dot, hyphenet-et, and lines over the long vowels),
then
create macros so that by simultaneously pressing 2 keys, the mark will
appear.
To create a mid-dot,
type U+00b7 and hold down the Alt key while typing X).
A mid-dot will appear.
To
create a hyphen-et, type U+06d4 and press Alt X. A short hyphen
will appear.
Note: If you
are using MS Windows XP or later, the Unicode (U+...) numbers are
already installed.
If you are using another
operating system that does not have Unicode numbers pre-installed,
you can download the Unicode fonts gratis
from the Internet.
To create alphabet letters "theta" and "esh", use the same technique you used to create a mid-dot.
To
create lower-case letter esh ( ꭍ ), type U+ab4d For capital-letter esh ( ꝭ ), type U+a76d
To create lower-case letter theta (θ ), type U+03b8 For capital-letter theta ( Θ ), type U+0398
How to
substitute this process by simultaneously pressing two keys.
For example, Alt-m to create a mid-dot, Alt-h to create a hypen-ette.
To faciilate
the process you must create a macro. To create a macro for a mid-dot: MS Word.
on top row
press View, then select Macro/ Press "record
macro". Press "keyboard".\
In the "Press new
shortcut key" dialog box, hold down the Alt key and type m (or any
letter).
Press
"assign", then "close". Type U+2219
and press Alt X.
Go to the top
of the screen, press View, then Macro, then "stop recording macro".
From then on,
every time you press Alt m, the mid-dot will appear.
Similarly create a macro to substitute, e.g. Alt h, for a
hyphen-et. Use U+06d4 instead of U+2219.
For other MS Office products, and most other common software, the
process is similar.
Check the
"help" section for "macros", and follow instructions.
To
create long vowels overhead lines, type the unicode number and
press Alt X, as above, then create macros.
| SYMBOL |
UNICODE |
MACRO |
|
SYMBOL |
UNICODE |
MACRO |
| ā |
U+0101 Alt x |
Alt a |
|
Ā |
U+0100 Alt x |
Alt-Shift a |
| ē |
U+0113, Alt x |
Alt e |
|
Ē |
U+0112, Alt x |
Alt-shift e |
| ī |
U+012B, Alt x |
Alt i |
|
Ī |
U+012A, Alt x |
Alt-shift i |
| ō |
U+014D, Alt x |
Alt o |
|
Ō |
U+014C, Alt x |
Alt-shift o |
| ū |
U+016B, Alt x |
Alt u |
|
Ū |
U+016A, Alt x |
Alt-shift u |
Create macros for each one of these accented letters -
per
instructions directly above.
We recommend the
above macros key squences, because they are simple and intuitive.
Thus, for an accented "a", type "a" as usual but while holding down the
"alt" key, etc.
Once the macros are set up, typing Peoplese
punctuation marks will soon become automatic.
Verb
suffixes are most quickly added with macros. Same
procedure as above.
Adding -d for any root
verb forms the past tense.
Type U+06d4 and press Alt X. A short hyphen will appear. Then
type "d".
Write a macro (Alt g recommended), so that when you press Alt and g, -d
appears.
Adding -ing for any root
verb forms a gerund.
Type U+06d4 and press Alt X. A short hyphen will appear. Then
type "ing".
Write a macro (Alt v recommended), so that when you type "Alt v", -ing
appears.
Download
(gratis) the normal.dotm file, which incorporates all of the above
changes.
To utilize this file, go to directory: [your user name] / AppData
/ roaming / microsoft / templates.
Save your existing "normal.dotm" file as "normal-copy.dotm"
Change the name of the downloaded file to: normal.dotm
(If you ever want to stop using the Peoplese normal file, add
"peoplese" to
its name,
then change your original normal.dotm file back to: normal.dotm)
Why
is
there an ® by the word
"Peoplese" on the home page?
The name
"Peoplese" is a registered trademark by the United State Patent
Trademark Office (USPTO),
and by the government trademark agencies of the European Union, China,
and India.
(No other language name has ever been trademarked anywhere.)
Applications are in
progress to trademark the language name in various other regions.
To what languages are Peoplese
indebted?
English: most vocabulary, most grammar.
Chinese:
root-word structure; grammar simplicity; mid-dot words; elimination of
homonyms by combining two synonyms into a single word; some vocabulary
(ta, chun, Taiyang, Yueliang, etc.)
Spanish:
spelled as it sounds; regularized system of knowing which syllable to
stress; formal and familiar pronouns; rolled "r". (A few other
languages also share these features.)
Brazilian Portuguese: fala cantando, the
singsong way of pronouncing sentences.
French:
inspiration as the world's most beautifully sounding language; soft "j"
sound.
Why
isn't
my language among the translations?
Peoplese staff are translating (or have translated) the website into
the most popular languages. Volunteers are welcome to
translate the website to any language, and after checking their
translations, we may link them to this official Peoplese website.
A continent is defined in Peoplese as a gigantic land mass surrounded
by water, so Europe, despite its immense contribution to
civilization and language, is a mega-peninsula. A gulf is defined
as a body
of salt water almost but not quite surrounded by land. All
Peoplese geograhical designations concur with satellite imagery; clear,
intuitive geographical definitions are listed on this website.
But nothing is stopping Europeans from teaching their children that
their land mass is a continent, or even a planet, and that their gulf
is a sea or even an ocean. As for the other billions people
on Earth, there is no reason they must memorize illogicalities.
Because the amazing Europeans were the first to explore our planet,
place names (such as Near East) were naturally European-centered, and
often named after European explorers. Centuries later, a global
language requires a global perspective, including respect for
ethnic-based place-names.
Europe spends disproportionate time and money on learning languages, to
the extent of being at an economic disadvantage. Understandably,
for historical and cultural reasons, Europeans prefer not to speak
English, but a solution looms. Peoplese is not American.
Can we
view a sample of Peoplese writing?
Yes. Click on
the 'Spelling' orange tab at the top of this page, scroll down, and you
will see English and both versions of Peoplese spelling. In
addition, dozens of books written exclusively in Peoplese language are
available on www.amazon.com; to view a sample, click on the link on the
upper right-hand corner of peoplese.org's home page.
What is the origin of Peoplese
language?
Peoplese is the result of a collective project by specialists over 40
years from Philippines, England, Spain, China, Cambodia, Thailand,
Russia, Jordan, India, and USA. Principle to the effort was the
work of lexicographer Razel
Rodis.
Read, "Origin
of Peoplese Language", written in Peoplese with both
Alike English and Sound Spell Same spelling.
Email contact: comments at peoplese.org ( Replace "at" with " @
".)