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I use 'jf' instead of 'jk', so I can type "Dijkstra" occasionally, not to mention they're both on the home row, under your index fingers, typically have physica

I use 'jf' instead of 'jk', so I can type "Dijkstra" occasionally, not to mention they're both on the home row, under your index fingers, typically have physical nubs on the keys, and no words in any language I can find contain the letters 'jf'.

xaduha 11y ago
What about IKEA names?
- JupiterMoon 11y ago
  Did you know that IKEA names tend to be names of towns and places in Sweden/Norway? So if IKEA names have jf then Swedish/Norwegian must have that letter combo as well..
  - semi-extrinsic 11y ago
    IKEA also frequently use first names (for people), e.g. Billy or Erik, and even abstract words, e.g. Poäng (point, as in "that's a good point".). As for jf: I searched through the pdf of a 1300 page Norwegian dictionary, and the single word in there containing jf is the abbreviation "jfr." which is the same as the abbreviation "cf." (confer) in English. So jf appears to be a very good choice.
    - e12e 11y ago
      Note that in Norwegian (and, I think, Swedish and Danish) words are joined without a hypen. So anythime a word ending with "j" like "marsj" ("march/marching") is joined with a word beginning with "f" like "fart" ("speed") you'll see "jf": "marsjfart" ("marching speed"/"cruis(e|ing) speed"). Also jfr isn't a particularly rare abbreviations - so ymmv. At any rate, with how words can be combined in Norwegian, there's generally no good safe choice... Another example, in line with the IKEA theme: "dusjforheng" ("shower curtain").
      - semi-extrinsic 11y ago
        Ah, hadn't thought of that. I had a feeling there had to be more words, but couldn't come up with any off the top of my head. Apparently I write very little Norwegian in vim (I use jk for Esc).
        e12e 11y ago
        FWIW (again, not sure about rules for joining words in Swedish): for abb in jk jf; do echo "Occurances of ${abb}:" grep ${abb} -c \ /usr/share/dict/{bokmål,nynorsk,british*,svenska} done Occurances of jk: /usr/share/dict/bokmål:90 /usr/share/dict/nynorsk:39 /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane:20 /usr/share/dict/svenska:70 Occurances of jf: /usr/share/dict/bokmål:31 /usr/share/dict/nynorsk:32 /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane:0 /usr/share/dict/svenska:0 So jf seems pretty safe for English, at least. Apart from when adding "jk" to your vimrc …
        auno 11y ago
        Words are joined the same way in Swedish as described above for Norwegian, so not safe there either.
- DoggettCK 11y ago
  That's when I switch over to emacs and ikea-mode.

xaduha 11y ago

What about IKEA names?

JupiterMoon 11y ago
Did you know that IKEA names tend to be names of towns and places in Sweden/Norway? So if IKEA names have jf then Swedish/Norwegian must have that letter combo as well..
- semi-extrinsic 11y ago
  IKEA also frequently use first names (for people), e.g. Billy or Erik, and even abstract words, e.g. Poäng (point, as in "that's a good point".). As for jf: I searched through the pdf of a 1300 page Norwegian dictionary, and the single word in there containing jf is the abbreviation "jfr." which is the same as the abbreviation "cf." (confer) in English. So jf appears to be a very good choice.
  - e12e 11y ago
    Note that in Norwegian (and, I think, Swedish and Danish) words are joined without a hypen. So anythime a word ending with "j" like "marsj" ("march/marching") is joined with a word beginning with "f" like "fart" ("speed") you'll see "jf": "marsjfart" ("marching speed"/"cruis(e|ing) speed"). Also jfr isn't a particularly rare abbreviations - so ymmv. At any rate, with how words can be combined in Norwegian, there's generally no good safe choice... Another example, in line with the IKEA theme: "dusjforheng" ("shower curtain").
    - semi-extrinsic 11y ago
      Ah, hadn't thought of that. I had a feeling there had to be more words, but couldn't come up with any off the top of my head. Apparently I write very little Norwegian in vim (I use jk for Esc).
      - e12e 11y ago
        FWIW (again, not sure about rules for joining words in Swedish): for abb in jk jf; do echo "Occurances of ${abb}:" grep ${abb} -c \ /usr/share/dict/{bokmål,nynorsk,british*,svenska} done Occurances of jk: /usr/share/dict/bokmål:90 /usr/share/dict/nynorsk:39 /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane:20 /usr/share/dict/svenska:70 Occurances of jf: /usr/share/dict/bokmål:31 /usr/share/dict/nynorsk:32 /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane:0 /usr/share/dict/svenska:0 So jf seems pretty safe for English, at least. Apart from when adding "jk" to your vimrc …
        auno 11y ago
        Words are joined the same way in Swedish as described above for Norwegian, so not safe there either.
DoggettCK 11y ago
That's when I switch over to emacs and ikea-mode.