Post AiBauTmxvJgbdFSIsq by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #Ai9xlxxiHOlREiTLYO by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T19:56:09Z
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So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know? So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order! It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.
(DIR) Post #Ai9xvnVS0cblhhwOBs by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T19:56:48Z
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Note to self: record someone singing the QWERTYbet to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star
(DIR) Post #Ai9y4JsPXahcPokBHc by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T19:58:02Z
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Although really the name should be something like "the cuedoubleyou", since the word "alphabet" comes from alpha + beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
(DIR) Post #Ai9yLsBrDUjDlCD4e8 by SnepperStepper@mastodon.social
2024-05-22T20:00:39Z
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@foone i'm on call and could run with it on analog video with your blessing
(DIR) Post #Ai9yY3cCZ5PQfXLH1s by gewt@san-junipero.gimme-sympathy.org
2024-05-22T20:01:23Z
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@foone reminds me of the “big iron in alphabetical order” video
(DIR) Post #Ai9yq1SpIlpTD3WW4u by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T20:01:17Z
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@SnepperStepper sure!
(DIR) Post #Ai9z1B2W2XxQ5qXH8q by billinkc@dataplatform.social
2024-05-22T20:02:05Z
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@foone I just sang that to myself and damned if I haven't summoned Cthulhu
(DIR) Post #Ai9zEiSP6cBVV66ITY by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2024-05-22T20:04:13Z
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@foone Just call it the qwerty. That's already a word, and it back-forms the meaning of qwerty keyboard to "a keyboard with the letters in alphabetical order"
(DIR) Post #Ai9zXaYugQaKW6913g by bialpio@mastodon.social
2024-05-22T20:10:48Z
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@foone why "would work almost completely the same"? What would change?
(DIR) Post #Ai9zvc7SXrxMIQl888 by glitzersachen@hachyderm.io
2024-05-22T20:19:24Z
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@foone Nah, qwertzuiopü... is the thing.Don't be exclusionist: Why should anglophone people have the only "cuedoubleyou" which corresponds to the keyboard?Best thing is, we localize the order of the letters. QW-de, QW-en, QW-ru.How come I am sensing this feeling of dread now?
(DIR) Post #AiA05ZD8DK6WAh9s8G by gparker@discuss.systems
2024-05-22T20:21:38Z
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@foone fun fact, the order of an alphabet is its most stable property, more constant over time than its members, its glyphs, or its pronunciations.
(DIR) Post #AiA11okIc5ED9FRqfA by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T20:30:40Z
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@bialpio like, one song. And some early schooling. You'd need to sort stuff differently
(DIR) Post #AiA1q8YpDRtp5A4jwW by donkey@mastodon.nz
2024-05-22T20:41:43Z
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@foone @bigzaphod Hex might need a re-work being 0-9+A-F. Or would it… 0-9+Q-Y?
(DIR) Post #AiA2KjcI0WpohFHnDE by tarkasteve@hachyderm.io
2024-05-22T20:45:34Z
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@foone As a bonus it would make nonsense of all those white supremacist "88" tattoos. How are you going to nazify "ii"?
(DIR) Post #AiA2cQQA7Bx6NJ366y by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T20:45:05Z
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@donkey @bigzaphod good point, hex would change too!
(DIR) Post #AiA4RiaeQDsdRryedU by donkey@mastodon.nz
2024-05-22T20:51:43Z
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@foone @bigzaphod MAC addresses would become much more spicy!0R:TE:1W:2Q:QY
(DIR) Post #AiA5XtAa6HdVx5I1M8 by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
2024-05-22T21:02:42Z
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@foone That would be terrible. Not everyone uses QWERTY, so such change would just cause nuissance everywhere, from P to Z!
(DIR) Post #AiA5vRfE19efaur6oq by seyye@meemu.org
2024-05-22T21:15:53Z
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@foone I did my best!
(DIR) Post #AiA6P5Gdqs68ovUQgC by Silly_Goober@pawb.fun
2024-05-22T21:32:34Z
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@foone Just make them write inca alphabetical keyboard. It was made in querty for a reason.
(DIR) Post #AiA7zylT5kgnJy47QO by falcennial@mastodon.social
2024-05-22T21:49:54Z
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@foone personally I welcome the rise of the quoublewet.
(DIR) Post #AiA9vVQSQmMx4uEU52 by pascaldragon@metalhead.club
2024-05-22T22:11:37Z
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@foone well, I use the Neo keyboard layout (https://neo-layout.org/) which is optimized for German, so I'm off the charts 😅
(DIR) Post #AiAAg58E0dmf8fuhcG by jpm@aus.social
2024-05-22T22:18:59Z
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@foone it still blows peoples minds when it’s pointed out that twinkle little star, alphabet, and baa baa black sheep all have the same tune with minor flourishes
(DIR) Post #AiABt810hPkBnjK8rw by mortonfox@furry.engineer
2024-05-22T22:34:09Z
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@foone So kids have to start learning their QWEs.
(DIR) Post #AiAC27wiKHrSBzbads by Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-05-22T22:36:05Z
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@foone 😂
(DIR) Post #AiAEGh0exOdgu2WY1Q by jamie@boothcomputing.social
2024-05-22T23:00:24Z
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@fooneLibraries and everywhere else with a filing system would like to speak with you....
(DIR) Post #AiAEXobtx1rBOn6lsG by Llokalla@mastodon.social
2024-05-22T23:03:26Z
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@foone you’re forgetting the Sesame Street Big Bird song pronouncing the alphabet as a word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvhKZHAP8U
(DIR) Post #AiAEuPEGU4OpLBpB2W by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-22T23:08:10Z
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@jamie fun fact: I work in a library! and I do library stuff for a hobby! so I know exactly how much chaos this would cause, and that's part of why I suggested it :)
(DIR) Post #AiAF4wYjPzlvblQF6G by jamie@boothcomputing.social
2024-05-22T23:09:22Z
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@fooneYeah, that's definitely a "watch the world burn" type of evil.
(DIR) Post #AiAFa0DNsP5jvIFODo by tinygirl@mstdn.social
2024-05-22T23:15:41Z
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@jaybird110127 @foone or grauve to / or question mark for that matter.
(DIR) Post #AiAJzHlEB6OhOfO9ke by thegarbagebird@theblower.au
2024-05-23T00:05:12Z
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@foone *chanting in the distance, growing louder*dvorak! dvorak! dvorak! dvorak!
(DIR) Post #AiAMNVMVSb9yRGVB6u by KirstenAnne@mas.to
2024-05-23T00:32:08Z
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@foone all those unusual q names would end up at the front of the line! Take that anyone who’s worked the system to be first alphabetically.
(DIR) Post #AiAN7K8DXynovefNlg by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-23T00:39:01Z
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@seyye that's very good! thanks!
(DIR) Post #AiANGaefTzowmWGP2W by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-23T00:40:25Z
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Here's a sung version of the new alphabet (cuedoubleyou) song:https://meemu.org/@seyye/112486813090146412
(DIR) Post #AiAP4uvSUT8e5Fg93Y by olav@theweird.space
2024-05-23T00:56:30Z
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@fooneOkay but we add the pipe, the semicolon, and F5
(DIR) Post #AiAPBOvLs1ukrKijhY by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
2024-05-23T00:58:55Z
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@foone Don't you mean P to Z? (-:
(DIR) Post #AiAPLmA8KEnVpNa7Vo by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
2024-05-23T00:59:10Z
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@foone qoppawau
(DIR) Post #AiAZqqDiHuQqvnhxIW by luiscarlosgonzalez@mastodon.social
2024-05-23T03:03:08Z
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@datajake1999 @foone I thought keyboards were alphabatical in order
(DIR) Post #AiAizNxxbX5NUqUMSG by hugh@mastodon.nz
2024-05-23T04:45:08Z
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@fooneIt is at least possible to touchtype on a QWERTY keyboard, and better have been devised, but who would rather touchtype with ABCDE | FGHIJKLMNO | PQRSTUVW | XYZ?
(DIR) Post #AiAmJZ2YRNCBUpx1qC by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-05-23T05:22:42Z
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@foone nooo "ellemennopee" must prevail! 😭
(DIR) Post #AiAuEyaKpyAuuL4hsG by bialpio@mastodon.social
2024-05-23T06:50:35Z
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@foone Gotcha, I think I'm not classifying the sort order and lyrics of some song as "a way a language works". 😉 At first I thought that maybe something in the grammar would also change.
(DIR) Post #AiB41rdANgkF7Gmliy by hugh@mastodon.nz
2024-05-23T08:40:43Z
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@foone You never use a book's index, do you?
(DIR) Post #AiB48ayAj2JzTAovrM by seyye@meemu.org
2024-05-23T08:41:09Z
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@foone Thankyou, you're quite welcome!
(DIR) Post #AiB6mI7IRGyiUS91cG by flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
2024-05-23T09:11:59Z
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@foone I get about two thirds through it and keep tripping on “semicolon”
(DIR) Post #AiB9zp99FI5iYd9gWm by kavey@kavlak.uk
2024-05-23T09:47:31Z
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@foone I ahve now sung this to myself three times
(DIR) Post #AiBZLfkzKnoyf2MyW0 by SRLevine@urbanists.social
2024-05-23T14:30:34Z
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@foone You chose chaos and it's awesome :ablobgrin:
(DIR) Post #AiBauTmxvJgbdFSIsq by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2024-05-23T14:46:41Z
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@foone I never appreciated the alphabet song more than when I learned to read Marathi. I kept asking people if they had an alphabet song and got confused looks because apparently de Devanagari is laid out perfectly logically, but since I still struggle with how क (Ka) and ख (kha) sound different from one another and how क sounds like त (ta) but not ठ (tha), the logic is lost on me.
(DIR) Post #AiH3VVcrpCXOYEye4e by ospalh@chaos.social
2024-05-26T06:03:39Z
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@foone This looks like part of the war on #Dvorak.What about my P-Y-F-G-C-R-L?#DvorakKeyboard #pyfgcrl
(DIR) Post #AiUBudszFQoRfGO1o0 by ralen@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-01T14:08:48Z
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@foone dvorak is superior to qwerty so lets make it standard and put the alphabet in that order, from ; to z