Hazards of not looking before hitting enter

[afuna]

22:23:00 <fu|work> I am honored by your consideration <33
22:23:09 <aveleh> And didnt' think I was ignoring you just because you ditched me with your "timeout"
22:23:11 <fu|work> arno tom ponnixry junh a xih dutfcy
22:23:18 <fu|work> err
22:23:25 <aveleh> <3  try again.
22:23:26 <fu|work> okay I have no idea what i meant to say
22:23:32 <fu|work> heeee
22:24:06 <fu|work> "also now possibly just a bit hungry"
22:24:14 <aveleh> mmm, food.
22:24:18 <fu|work> oh man that was weird

Comments

Dvorak

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I was wondering how you'd get that kind of typo out of a keyboard. Dvorak would be an explanation.

I wonder whether I should pick it up. Two of my colleagues here are using it, with one of them having started doing so around the time I started working here six months ago.

Though I think one problem might be that AFAIK there's no standard German Dvorak layout, and support in keyboard drivers will likely be low. And while another colleague of mine used a US keyboard for programming (partly because she learned how to type on typewriters on a year-long stay in the US, partly because important characters such as [] {} are easier to reach), I'd need access to ä ö ü ß occasionally when typing German texts.

Re: Dvorak

[afuna]

I was wondering how you'd get that kind of typo out of a keyboard.

I had my left hand positioned correctly, but misplaced my right hand (which is why all the vowels were right, but the consonants mostly weren't.)

Hm. I think it would be better to ask your colleagues, assuming that they're also using the German keyboard layout. I switched to Dvorak in my third year of college, pretty much on a whim (because my typing speed was too slow, and I was tempted by the way that it is purportedly less stressful on the fingers and wrists). I'm not sure what the differences would be with a German layout -- is there no easy way to type in ä ö ü ß easily with the Dvorak keyboard layout?

Oddly enough, I find it easier to use Dvorak on a flat keyboard such as with my laptop. When I'm on a raised keyboard, such as with the PC in my room, I find QWERTY comes more naturally. (It's partially because the keys require more effort to push, and I can't seem to get into the rhythm. Plus I'm used to using QWERTY on raised keyboards; most of my experience with using Dvorak has been on a flat one)