Message-ID: <344D08A5.2038@locke.ccil.org> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:55:17 -0400 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: Dvorak (& Lojban) References: <199710212020.PAA29073@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 923 Lines: 26 Ilya Ketris wrote: > Why is it another thing? I touch-type in cyrillic, > and cyrillic A, O, T, E, K etc. are just the same as > their latin counetrparts (they look same, they sound similar) > and still there is no confusion between two different modes. Because (as the Unicode folks are fond of pointing out) you think of them as different characters. If you see "ABC" in an English context, you think "ay-bee-cee"; in a Russian context, you think "ah-ve-es". No connection. But in Latin script, a B is a B, and a C is a C, and if you have to remember: to type a B with left-2nd-finger-down and C with left-3rd-finger-down on QWERTY only vs. B with (whatever) and C with (whatever) on non-QWERTY then you will tend to type QWERTY B with non-QWERTY C or vice versa. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban