Comments on: Typo Time http://www.timrylands.com/blog/2007/12/10/typo-time/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:16:09 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Geoffrey R. Staines http://www.timrylands.com/blog/2007/12/10/typo-time/comment-page-1/#comment-10054 Geoffrey R. Staines Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:01:53 +0000 http://www.timrylands.com/blog/2007/12/10/typo-time/#comment-10054 Tim, Your comment on the Dvorak layout and the fact that you are not even going to try it underscore the futility of promoting it. The QWERTY layout has its faults, but it has been taught for years and millions use it. Why change? On our recent trip to France we were forced to use computers with the AZERTY keyboard (the French equivalent of QWERTY). As you will guess, there are a number of differences. (Surprise! the A and the Z where the Q and the W "should" be.) We found the experience so frustrating that we were forced to retreat to a nearby bistro to recuperate. Tim,

Your comment on the Dvorak layout and the fact that you are not even going to try it underscore the futility of promoting it. The QWERTY layout has its faults, but it has been taught for years and millions use it. Why change?

On our recent trip to France we were forced to use computers with the AZERTY keyboard (the French equivalent of QWERTY). As you will guess, there are a number of differences. (Surprise! the A and the Z where the Q and the W “should” be.) We found the experience so frustrating that we were forced to retreat to a nearby bistro to recuperate.

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://www.timrylands.com/blog/2007/12/10/typo-time/comment-page-1/#comment-9958 Ewan McIntosh Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:58:35 +0000 http://www.timrylands.com/blog/2007/12/10/typo-time/#comment-9958 There are a lot of things we learn and don't learn at school. I would see entrepreneurship a more important skill than typing, Chinese more important than French (and I'm a French teacher). I never learned how to type but ended up as a professional copytaker in the Scotsman newspaper because I could go hell for leather - accurately - on a keyboard whose letters had been erased by the finger nails of the ladies who had worked there for years. Yes, it's important to type quickly and accurately, but I guess when we only have so many hours other equally vital skills need to have their spot, too. There are a lot of things we learn and don’t learn at school. I would see entrepreneurship a more important skill than typing, Chinese more important than French (and I’m a French teacher). I never learned how to type but ended up as a professional copytaker in the Scotsman newspaper because I could go hell for leather – accurately – on a keyboard whose letters had been erased by the finger nails of the ladies who had worked there for years.

Yes, it’s important to type quickly and accurately, but I guess when we only have so many hours other equally vital skills need to have their spot, too.

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