November 15, 2011

Keyboard

My keyboard (computer) has 120 keys or buttons on it. Ridiculous. Many of them I don't use and never will. It just makes it easier to hit a wrong key. One of them I accidentally hit and everything freezes.

Then there is the problem of typing in two languages. I can type in English, and I can type in Hebrew. However my English typing ability has taken a setback because I sometimes can't remember which is where, so I type E for Q because the E key is the Hebrew Quf, and K for L because the K key is the Hebrew Lamed. And several others. In Hebrew I constantly mix up Mem and Nun, which are one key over from the English M and N, and Dalet is one key over from D.

You could probably invent a code by exchanging every other letter for the similar key in another language.

doud mornhns = good morning. That one's fairly obvious. Or you could say
guos murbibg.

But then there'd be a problem of what to do with diphthongs and digraphs.

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