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Some more baby steps in modernizing the delivery of health care: Look carefully at the keyboard and you will see the usual QWERTY but also the Dari alphabet (alef-bey in Dari for the first 2 letters of their alphabet). We obtained the dual keyboard for their new computer lab and the computers have the software to easily switch between the latin and Dari alphabets. Dari has 33 letters but there is no case, so English is actually more complicated with 52 upper and lower case letters. Dari spelling is also phonetic, so easy to pronounce if you know the sounds of the letters. I have been entertaining the 'terps lately with English homophones like u-you-yew-ewe.
Also shown is an Italian cardiologist teaching the Afghan internist how to do echocardiograms, vessel ultrasounds and ultrasonic thyroid exams. The USA supplied a state of the art ultrasound machine when the hospital opened and this doc is getting quite proficient at its use.
2 comments:
Curious. Do you know if the keys are arranged alphabetically, or in some weird pattern like qwerty?
Isn't 'aleph' the first letter of the hebrew alphabet? sort of surprising - I don't think Farsi and Hebrew are at all related.
I believe the most commonly used keys are under the fingers at rest, i.e., the middle row. I note that the Dari Alef and Hebrew Aleph are indeed pronounced the same. I think there are common distant roots, the Indoeuropean ancient language.
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