Gugny Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) I've given this way too much thought and time looking into because it's bugging the !@#$ out of me. I can't make sense of it; nor can I find any historical information that makes sense of it. These are the following ways to separate or end written thoughts - period, comma, colon, semi-colon, dash, exclamation point, question mark. One needs to shift in order to use a semi-colon, exclamation point or question mark. Comma, period, colon, semi-colon and question mark are all in the same area - at the bottom right. Exclamation point is top left; Dash is top right - which I can understand because it's commonly used with digits. But none of the rest makes no !@#$ing sense. Here's the history of the QWERTY keyboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY Most interesting fact (to me): For a long time, there was no 1 and no zero. Typists would use a lowercase L and O for those digits. The 1/! key wasn't added to most typewriters until the 1970s. Now ... I am !@#$ing done with this topic because it's disturbingly frustrating. Edited January 24, 2015 by Gugny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 has to do with going back to the old days of computers. back in the day you couldn't type in a ? to dos and programming script half the times you'd type /. /cd /ipconfig /doom2/doom2.exe c:/ .... wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 wrong nu uh. I learned that in 7th grade keyboarding class. I mean I didn't fact check it. It made sense. Crap, now I have to Google the keyboard history. I have stuff to do. argh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 nu uh. I learned that in 7th grade keyboarding class. I mean I didn't fact check it. It made sense. Crap, now I have to Google the keyboard history. I have stuff to do. argh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I am reading about it now. Spent 20 minutes on it already. I think it's funny because this is not the first time I learned something in school that proved to be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickleyjones Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Does anyone actually have experience with a Dvorak keyboard? I'd like to learn. I work as a case manager in school so my keyboard is my job. Yes, I made the switch many years ago after reading that QWERTY was designed to slow down typing. I hate crap like that...sticking to a tradition even thought that tradition is clearly inferior. What the hell is ';' doing on the 'home row'??? Whenever I am unsure of my decision to switch, all I need to do is start typing on someone else's keyboard. I feel my fingers stretching further and general discomfort when I do that. Interesting things about Dvorak: 1) It really annoys other people when they borrow your computer for a minute. Of course they can't type on it, so they have to switch the OS over to qwerty. And if you physically switch your keys over to Dvorak as I have, it can be pretty funny. Don't look down! 2) I work in IT, so I am often other people's computers. Then I am stuck in qwerty mode for a minute. It took me quite a while to be able to switch back and forth from qwerty and dvorak smoothly...I am finally bilingual (bitypual?). Now I find myself commiting cross-keyboard typing errors (not that much, but sometimes). 3) Even IT guys think it is nerdy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 The semicolon is, when properly used, a very helpful punctuation mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickleyjones Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 The semicolon is, when properly used, a very helpful punctuation mark. Perhaps, but is it as helpful as a o e u i d h t n or s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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