Re: Replying to posts

[N. Andrew Walsh]

"special"? I'll show you special. I have a Maltron split-layout keyboard, with a switch on the underside to change between the "normal" German QWERTZ layout and the custom one Maltron designed for themselves to be ergonomic (in which the home row is ANISF -- DTHORÄ, the numeric keypad is in between them, the E is under the left thumb, and every single person who tries to use my computer walks away with a splitting headache). Hear: look at the product page and weep at the baffling eccentricity: http://www.maltron.com/shop/product/2526-maltron-two-hand-3d-fully-ergonomic-keyboards-for-germany

(yes, it cost a fortune, but it saved my hands after years of steadily increasing carpal tunnel issues)

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:10 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 2016-04-27 13:39, schrieb N. Andrew Walsh:

In german we have a saying:
"Leute fresst Scheisse. Millionen Fliegen können nicht irren."

 Now I'm going to start an argument about your deplorable capitulation to
the masses by abandoning the venerable "ß".

*goes back to the popcorn*

I can only guess but some years ago I changed my keyboard layout from german qwertz (containing umlauts and ß) to US qwerty because {[]}\|~ are much more easily to reach and LaTeX (which I used often then) has ASCII representations of these characters. Maybe he has similar reasons. Or he is secretly Swiss ;)

(now I use the neo layout but that's somewhat special ...)

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