SEELANGS Digest - 1 May 2013 (#2013-189)

[Danine Falcon]

Actually, the QWERTY keyboard was not adopted because "the most frequently
used letters were the most central" -- quite the opposite. In the beginning
days of typewriting, early typists were so fast that the individual rods
containing the letter imprints would get tangled up with each other as they
went up and down striking the paper. Typewriter designers went back to the
drawing board and redesigned the layout of the keys so that it took longer
to type, thus slowing down the rods and reducing the frequency of jams. For
what it's worth. Have a nice day,

Danine Falcon
Languages and Culture Studies Dept.
Nimitz G 058
U.S. Naval Academy
589 McNair Road, MS 10C
Annapolis, MD 21402

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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. Russian keyboards
>   2. His Butler's Sister
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> Date:    Wed, 1 May 2013 13:54:07 -0400
> From:    Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Russian keyboards
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> My 2¢. Switching from QWERTY to AZERTY is also not easy if you are
> used to touch typing.
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> For individuals, not labs, I suppose, there is a Ukelele (sic!)
> program that allows you to change your keyboard layout. It allowed me
> at one point to synchronize my Mac and my PC, because various phonetic
> keyboards place Щ or Ю rather according to their own desires.
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> On May 1, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:
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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.
> >
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> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> WLC, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387        fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
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> Date:    Wed, 1 May 2013 14:27:04 -0400
> From:    Elena Gapova <e.gapova at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: His Butler's Sister
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> Deanna Durbin passed away several days ago (yes, she was still alive).
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> Here's the link to the famous piece with Russian songs from "His Butler's
> Sister" (1943)
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I4sg3wc6c
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> Elena Gapova
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