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Take a second look and compare it to yours.
This is the standard French keyboard, the one I have to deal with whenever I am at the neighbors' (I live in Spain) on hols and visit an internet cafe. I know, it's only a couple of times a year but I can't get used to it, it drives me crazy. Even the numbers are wrong, you have to capitalize them :)
I have a Spanish one with an Ñ, that funny looking N with a moustache on top :)
Ah yes, the famous AZERTY keyboard! Created to speed up typing speeds, apparently. The more standard QWERTY board evolved in the age of manual typewriters - the layout was designed to slow down (I know, insane, but true) the typist to avoid jamming.
ReplyDeleteWe're long past that now, of course, but the layout remains. I guess old habits really do die hard.
At least it's a Dell :)
Good to e-see you again. I'm sorry for being such a stranger of late: work has been more than a little crazy.
But that's my keyboard !! What do you say ! The Querty/z are awful, I had to deal with that in Amsterdam and got crazy ! The n° and the A everything is at the wrong place ! How can you work with such a thing ?????? and what Carmi said is true, when I left school I made already 120wpm and had not yet practisized. Now I should be at least at 190 wpm. I type quicker than some people speak.Sounds pretentious but is true.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, but then, we all know the French are a little crazy! (LOL, just kidding!)
ReplyDeleteOMG! I'd never get anything typed on that thing.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely have to hunt and peck on that keyboard!
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ReplyDeleteLoved the photos.
Cheers.
Wow, that's different, I've never seen one (I'm not particularly well traveled) How interesting what Carmi said also, about slowing down typists to prevent manual typewriters' jamming- being old enough to have used manual typewriters I can see how that could happen!
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Ahhhh....that is my keyboard!! I love it and type very fast on it. When I moved to France 8 years ago, it took a LOT of getting used to. But now it is great and I "hunt and peck" on a QWERTY one now! I hate using my mother's computer when we are in the States. :-)
ReplyDeleteMar, my keyboard has the "N mustache symbol" but I have never figured out how to get it on top of the N.
ReplyDeleteOh My Lord Mar...That would drive me nuts, too! I wonder why ALL Keyboards from every country would not be standardized...I mean Dell Is Dell, everywhere...!
ReplyDeleteThis Makes NO Sense, whatsoever, does it? (LOL) OY!
I don't think this would be good for a person who can't adapt to change. I'd take quite a long time to learn this system, much like I'd imagine driving in England. Without the crashes.
ReplyDeleteI would go knuts trying to type on that keyboard, all my posts would look something like this:
ReplyDeleteiugr orf.;ki ekljuj eudjhfdk dkjgl kdla tgdk kdjhg dkl;'a jtjlsf sks l f. ñ
one more reason to vote the french off the island ( planet ) hehe
ReplyDeleteLOL, I don't think I could ever adjust -- I've been a touch typist since high school and that was a long long time ago! :)
ReplyDeleteIsnt it possible to tell Windows to use the english keyboard layout and you just type using the keys as if they where as you remember them? Does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteFor a long term solution, pry the keys off and put them back where they should be. Do this in enough French cyber cafes and you'll start a revolution!!