Jo Brodie
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I wrote an article about the history of QWERTY-style keyboards & how they have been adapted / made useful, with software ('input method editors'), for speakers of non-Latin script alphabets (e.g. Japanese). https://cs4fn.blog/2023/04/04/stretching-your-keyboard-getting-more-out-of-qwerty/ #scicomm
02:09 PM - Apr 05, 2023
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It's often claimed that the QWERTY layout was invented to slow typists down and/or to prevent lever jams. This is #DeceivedWisdom . The layout was designed so that digraphs, for instance (letters commonly used together) would be hit by opposite hands so that typists could work faster not slower.
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03:37 AM - Apr 06, 2023
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