04-19-2011, 10:24 PM
hmm
odd
AZERTY keyboards are awesoooooooooooome >:0
Everyone in France is like "oh yeah, big deal azerty keyboard blah" - but in the states, we all have qwerty keyboards.
QWERTY's commonplace here and its name comes from the first six letters on the keyboard. Letters are placed in relation to where fingers most commonly rest. Most words use vowels quite commonly, as we do the letter t and n, so they're placed closer to the center of the keyboard. A's and L's are used pretty commonly too; that middle row gets a lot of love bar the G and H keys which don't get so much attention.
Outcast letters that aren't commonly used, like q and z and the bracket [] symbols kinda linger around the edges of the keyboard where we usually have to put a little (not really) effort into those.
In France and Belgium you're using Q's more frequently and other letters have more prevalence in the French language than they do in English, so some of the letters are switched about to make it more convenient for French typists.
All in all it's hard to explain; azerty keyboards may not be so special to you, but I happen to find the idea of keyboards where letters are arranged differently from mine quite exotic
odd
AZERTY keyboards are awesoooooooooooome >:0
Everyone in France is like "oh yeah, big deal azerty keyboard blah" - but in the states, we all have qwerty keyboards.
QWERTY's commonplace here and its name comes from the first six letters on the keyboard. Letters are placed in relation to where fingers most commonly rest. Most words use vowels quite commonly, as we do the letter t and n, so they're placed closer to the center of the keyboard. A's and L's are used pretty commonly too; that middle row gets a lot of love bar the G and H keys which don't get so much attention.
Outcast letters that aren't commonly used, like q and z and the bracket [] symbols kinda linger around the edges of the keyboard where we usually have to put a little (not really) effort into those.
In France and Belgium you're using Q's more frequently and other letters have more prevalence in the French language than they do in English, so some of the letters are switched about to make it more convenient for French typists.
All in all it's hard to explain; azerty keyboards may not be so special to you, but I happen to find the idea of keyboards where letters are arranged differently from mine quite exotic