Typing in Spanish (aka The Song About A Cow)

[megfilmworks]

I come from a Sony P800, then P900, then P910 and later the amazing Nokia 7710, which, btw, actually has the REAL internet experience... The keyboards were so much better and you could type with your nails, if necessary. The iPhone only recognizes skin touching...

In my experience with the above, I still disagree. Not in the same league.
Plastic buttons will go the way of the Edsel. I understand the fingernail concern though if you have long nails, but then you couldn't play piano, guitar, violin or any delicate instrument with long nails, at least not very well. The skin touching is one of the best features. Also not sure what you mean by the real internet experience...I'll take Safari anyday over some crippled mini app.

 

[tny]

It would be nice to have multiple languages, but I'd rather have them working on other features instead of that first. Also, I (and the majority) don't need space taken up by un-needed features(by the majority) [...] My ex-girlfriends parents have only been in the country for 7 years, they speak broken English but have no problem using computers here, and they don't expect Apple to support them. [...] Edit: Let' start a Creole end Ebonics petition too

The majority of the planet are actually multilingual/polyglottal. I am, a good American boy with English ancestors: and I text in languages other than English. Get over it.

 

[atticuslynch]

Sure, but the larger percentage speaks english.
Besides I believe in the old saying: When living in Rome do as the Romans do, and that includes the language.

From the Wikipedia: "Spanish is the second most common language in the United States after English. There are more Spanish speakers in the United States than there are speakers of French (another language inherited from European colonization), Hawaiian, and the various Native American languages taken all together. According to the 2000 United States Census, Spanish is spoken most frequently at home by about 28.1 million people aged 5 or over.[1] The United States is home to more than 40 million Hispanics, making it the fifth largest Spanish-speaking community in the world, after Mexico, Colombia, Spain and Argentina.[2][3] Roughly half of all Spanish speakers in the US also speak English "very well."[1]"

I think some "Usa Romans" talk spanish too, and i´m sure they send sms and email to spanish people they know, so this is something Apple have to work on for sure. And by the way almost any phone in the market comes with lots of languages loaded.

Anyway, i write only in spanish and yes, it´s a bit annoying, but nothing serious. The great dictionary learns a lot and fast

 

[LizKat]

if you clip some fingernails for iPhone use, FLAUNT them!!

The iPhone only recognizes skin touching...

Yes and that's what's so cool about it, you can clean smudges off the flim/screen without having to turn off the iPhone. When I figured that out, I knew I was in iPhone heaven.

So if you usually have long fingernails, just help the planet develop the next cool thing: short nails on thumbs and whichever fingers you use to key onto your iPhone. And of course paint them a different color or put a sticker on them. Tasmanian devil stickers or tiny Barsuk Records stickers would be great. You know, that little dog with the frisbee.... Maybe Barsuk will start offering iPhone fingernail stickers with their CDs!

btw i just saw green polish, on the nails of my niece a few weeks ago. At first I thought well that's at least a couple bridges too far for me. But now i have decided that two green thumbnails and an index finger in green would look fantastic (rest of the nails, no polish). Where the heck did she get that stuff though... ?

 

[guifa]

Hence, when in Puerto Rico, speak Español, since that IS an official language, and most certainly the primary language of the territory. Ditto for Hawai?i‘i, why do people move there and not learn to speak ??lelo Hawai?i?

Anyways, given that every other phone in North America includes dictionaries for at least French and Spanish, and OS X has a built in Spanish and French spell checking engine, there's no reason for them not to include it. I'm looking at my v600 which I nabbed cheap (and unlocked) from across the pond, and it has dictionaries for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Turkish, and Portuguese. A $30 phone can do international better than the iPhone? Come on Apple.

Sure, but the larger percentage speaks english.
Besides I believe in the old saying: When living in Rome do as the Romans do, and that includes the language.

 

[ppdix]

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Sure, but the larger percentage speaks english.
Besides I believe in the old saying: When living in Rome do as the Romans do, and that includes the language.

That is why all Americans are so ignorant and limited. For your information, Rome is in Italy. Italians speak Italian, not English, and lots of them live in the US, just like millions of other foreigners that are smart enough to speak more than one language... And I and they also have money to buy iPhones to communicate with their relatives or with each other.
There are 25 million spanish speakers in the US. Hillary Clinton's Website has a full Spanish section. Every bank I know has Spanish websites, mailers and advertising... Even Miller has a new beer called Beerveza to reach the Hispanic Market... U call any 800 number and there is an option for Spanish... Come on! U think the US is the only big country in the planet? Apple knows they need to do something about it. Specially when they plan to sell the phone in Europe where even retarded people speak at least 3 different languages...

 

[Eärendil]

Yes

It Needs a spanish keyboard, may i remind you how many people in mexico and spain and latin america would buy an iphone when it comes out?

Besides, it is the most teached foreign language in the usa.

And there are a lot of mexicans that can actually buy an iphone (and i dont mean illegal) that live in the us.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Reminds me of a joke:

What do you call a person who knows three languages?
Trilingual
What do you call a person who knows two languages?
Bilingual
What do you call a person who knows one language?
An American

Heehaw!

I'm learning Spanish, Italian and French all at the same time, and considering that all my audio lessons are loaded up on my iPhone, it'd be great if I could type on the thing too, without autocorrect adding to the confusion.

If they're hoping to sell iPhones to the hhhhhummungous Asian market, Apple had better get those Mandarin/etc... dictionaries up to speed & find a way to load & enable them.

 

[Oskee2001]

I too have bemoaned the lack of a spanish keyboard... I text and email my parents in spanish all the time. at first it was annoying because the english dictionary didn't recognize anything, but over time it has learned so its not so bad anymore.

Aren't they releasing the iphone in Spain soon, if not already? i hope that one comes in Spanish.

And whoever said that it should only be in english: try not to be so ignorant. people *gasp* speak languages other than english. It's a whole new world we live in, friend.

 

[ppdix]

Hola Oskee, if u have a jailbroken iPhone u can have 200,000-word dictionary in Spanish!

Salu2

Patrick

Here is the link: http://dev-iphone.blogspot.com/

I too have bemoaned the lack of a spanish keyboard... I text and email my parents in spanish all the time. at first it was annoying because the english dictionary didn't recognize anything, but over time it has learned so its not so bad anymore.

Aren't they releasing the iphone in Spain soon, if not already? i hope that one comes in Spanish.

And whoever said that it should only be in english: try not to be so ignorant. people *gasp* speak languages other than english. It's a whole new world we live in, friend.

 

[gnasher729]

Sure, but the larger percentage speaks english.
Besides I believe in the old saying: When living in Rome do as the Romans do, and that includes the language.

That's a saying that US americans use when they are in the USA, but somehow it doesn't apply to them as soon as they leave their country.

From a programmer's point of view, a very very easy way to help a significant percentage of their customers a lot would be to have a setting "Keyboard language", even if the only two settings available were "English" and "Other". Anyone often using ONE non-English language could just switch to "Other", so the English dictionary wouldn't interfere with their say Spanish typing, the iPhone would learn words over time, and when switching back to English it wouldn't try to replace English words with Spanish.

 

[megfilmworks]

Reminds me of a joke:

What do you call a person who knows three languages?
Trilingual
What do you call a person who knows two languages?
Bilingual
What do you call a person who knows one language?
An American

Heehaw!

Funny quote. Kinda true, I barely speak English well,
but my Mom speaks over 8 languages, my grandmother 5, my girlfriend fluent in over 10!!
And they are all Americans.