Flyke; Pink sheep: General Chang Chicken
Mark A Mandel
mam at THEWORLD.COM
Mon Jul 8 00:17:55 UTC 2002
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, James A. Landau wrote:
#An even "crazier", but actually quite sane, keyboard is the one used on the
#Enigma crypto machine the Germans misused in World War II. The Enigma
#encyphered only the twenty-six letters of the "Roman" (actually English)
#alphabet, so it only had 26 keys, and the "y" and '"z" were reversed from the
#American QWERTY standard. However, there being no semicolon key, the
#typist's right pinkie would be hanging in mid-air, so the Germans moved the
#"p" key down from the top row to give that finger something to rest on.
#
#Perhaps that change for the convenience of the pinkie was the origin of "pink
#sheep"?
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-- Mark A. Mandel, feeling obtuse (about 150 degrees)
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