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8 Word Blaster — The object of the game is to guess the mystery word before all 
of the hidden letters are revealed. 

Press 

 to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 

 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 

 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 

 when you think 

you know the word. The guess screen will then appear. Type in your guess and 
press 

 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 

 will allow you to take another guess at the word. To reveal the 

mystery word, press 

. At the end of a round, pressing 

 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 

 to go on to the next round. Whether you 

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ENTER

ENTER

ENTER

ENTER

ENTER

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SPACE

SPACE

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 

 to reveal the games menu. Select the game by pressing 

 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 

GAMES

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Содержание Language Master LM-6000

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Страница 13: ...u looked up Use a synonym when you want a word exactly like the one you looked up Press Type in astute Press The dictionary information for astute appears Press Your screen now looks like the one below CLEAR ENTER 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 P...

Страница 14: ... chapter GRAMMAR CLEAR GRAMMAR ENTER FWD 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 You will immediately see the Gram mar Guide section on transitive verbs If more than o...

Страница 15: ...mar Guide itself that you would like to look up in the dictio nary press to highlight words in the Grammar Guide move the cursor to the word you want using the arrow keys then press 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 while viewing the grammar informa...

Страница 16: ...ighlighted as are the occurrences of the letter a in the examples under it ENTER FWD At this point you may press to hear the previous sound or 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 repeatedly to hear a word s sound more than once Press to hear the entire word pronounced again Press or to leave the DPG...

Страница 17: ...TIONARY 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 ...

Страница 18: ...TION Search Definitions This deserves a section of its own ENTER Search Definitions Press 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 You now have a place to type your query Suppose you re trying to recall the special kind of insec...

Страница 19: ...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 ra dioactive form or isotope you will find all entries that use either radioactive and ENTER form or radi...

Страница 20: ...ds simply pick it off of the screen and look at its definition Press to return to the Confus ables 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...

Страница 21: ...st menu appears Press until the screen below appears ENTER ENTER LIST You are at the second command The bold letter A in the word Add is the mne monic character for adding words to the User List When you become more familiar with the command screen you simply have to press then the mnemonic character of a command in this case the letter A from anywhere in this menu to activate that command Press o...

Страница 22: ... the Language Master s word list You may press when the command you wish to perform is highlighted We know that ninja is the correct spelling so press at the Add it anyway line The message Word added flashes over the screen and ninja has been add ed to the User List CLEAR LIST A ENTER ENTER The second method of adding words to the User List is picking a word off of a screen Press Type run Press an...

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Страница 33: ...he object of the game is to guess the word that is jum bled Press to reveal the games menu You may select the game by pressing then SP ACE ENTER ENTER BACK SP ACE GAMES 2 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 when all of the options have been set A jumbled word will appear on the Language Master s screen Wh...

Страница 34: ...mes section on how to set the options Press when all of the options have been set GAMES 3 ENTER ENTER ENTER SP ACE GAMES 4 ENTER ENTER The game will flash a word on the screen You have as much time as you like to study the word Press to go on to the next word or to see the word s definition If you look at the definition of the word press to return to the game 5 Spelling Bee The object of this exer...

Страница 35: ...SPACE 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 to reveal the games menu Select the game by pressing 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 when all of the options have been set This game presents a group of question marks...

Страница 36: ...ave been revealed you can press to go on to the next round Whether you GAMES 8 ENTER ENTER ENTER ENTER ENTER SP ACE SP ACE 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 l...

Страница 37: ...e rather than a word game In this example ver sion 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 ab cdef For instance it might choose caaf SPACE SPACE SP ACE GAMES 1 0 ENTER ENTER 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...

Страница 38: ... 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 ...

Страница 39: ...s a screen which asks you to ENTER game word Type the word deer Press Your screen would look like the one below ENTER GAMES ENTER We are now ready to enter our first attempt The first underline is flashing This in dicates 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 prob lem we ll...

Страница 40: ...er is exactly where it is supposed to be The Misplaced 2 message in dicates 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 h...

Страница 41: ...fect 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 c...

Страница 42: ...ers which drop down from the top of the screen Press to reveal the games menu Select the game by pressing then then 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 wo...

Страница 43: ...re typing in a word In most cases BACK returns you to REV FWD GRAMMAR HELP GAMES BACK the previous screen BACK also turns off the PICK highlight and gets you out of the HELP screen Used to activate commands Activates pick mode Selects pick word Returns you to the Type in prompt from any screen Erases an en tire word from the Type in screen Presents the Search Definitions and Setup commands or game...

Страница 44: ...tary 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 AA AC adaptor The Language Master may be fitted with an AC DC adaptor in the 4 5 to 6 volt range within a current range of 250 to 350 milliamps C ...

Страница 45: ...se 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 produc...

Страница 46: ...es 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...

Страница 47: ... 40 games memory challenge 33 games option screens 27 games score 28 games selection 28 games speed 27 games spelling bee 32 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...

Страница 48: ...ng 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 ...

Страница 49: ...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 ...

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