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Nice, didn't know the origin of that.
In the age of type setting, commonly used letters were stored in the closer to hand, lower case, whereas less used letters such as capitals were stored in the upper case. ![]() Italics has nothing to do with meaning slanty text, it's named after it's country of origin (Italy) and was developed to fit more text on a page. Oh and the fact that blew my mind this week, your mother is a 3D printer and your father was just provided software.... (No offence or pun intended, just quite a true analogy I thought)
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On the subject of type setting.
The keys on a computer keyboard were actually laid out like they are to slow down typists in the early days of the type writer, so that the letter stamp thingys, no idea what they are called, wouldn't clash and get tangled. |
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Typebar
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Close, but no cigar. It was laid out in such a way that the most frequently used letters were far enough apart not to clash. If it were to slow them down it would have only done so until they learned the new layout.
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+1 for the pedant
![]() Anyone tried Dvorak layout or azerty?
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I really don't think this is the origin of the phrase 'the whole 9 yards' and wikipedia seems to agree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards [/pedant off] ![]() |
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![]() Count the A's and E's in your own sentence, then think how often A and E are used together.
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Perhaps a bad example, perhaps T and H, E and R then I might get the thinking that some letters are used together are there right next to each other on the keyboard.
As Brettus inadvertently pointed out there are other layouts which have been designed for faster/easier typing in the electronic age. Also its the mechanism and the closeness on the Typebar (thanks Grant66) that is the important part for not jamming commonly-used-next-to-each-other letters. |
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