Russian keyboards

[Sarah Hurst]

Mine too! I somehow found an old Russian typewriter in the 1990s and used it
to type my essays for university. Also, this was in the UK. I don't know if
phonetic keyboards are used as commonly in the UK as they seem to be in the
U.S. It reminds me of the current debate in the U.S. about not bothering to
teach cursive. I suppose now that people communicate mainly via texting, the
most important skill is using an iPhone. 

 

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My mistake was learning to type before there were computers!

 

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This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards were
so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be easier
to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as with
the QWERTY keyboard. 

 

Sarah Hurst

 

 

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