Cyrillic keyboards

[Deborah Hoffman]

Ok, I'll bite.  What is a linotype keyboard?  We have
these large Victorian-era metal type producing
linotype machines with keyboards in the front.  They
used to set type for a printing business.  Do you mean
to say somebody is actually still producing something
based on them in 2005?

Curiously,
Deborah


>
> > It was supposed to be a character's name in a
> film: "K. SAMOILOV" (or
> > "KLIM SAMOILOV").
> >
> > But on IMDB it was spelled  "K SHRDLU," believe it
> or not.
> >
> > Does the above misspelling make sense to you
> experts who regularly
> > work with the "non-homophonic" arrangement of
> Cyrillic keys?
>
> No, but it is the right half of the first row on a
> linotype keyboard
> (ETAOIN SHRDLU)...
>
> My guess is someone stuck it in as a placeholder and
> forgot to update it.
>
> --
> War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
> --
> Paul B. Gallagher
> pbg translations, inc.
> "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
> http://pbg-translations.com
>

Deborah Hoffman
Graduate Assistant
Kent State University
Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies

http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dhoffma3/index.htm

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