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> Oh, and since this is not 1970 anymore, consider that computer users come from all other the world, and type in their native languages, where QWERTY vs DVORAK
by ken 8y ago
> Oh, and since this is not 1970 anymore, consider that computer users come from all other the world, and type in their native languages, where QWERTY vs DVORAK means even less.
How do you figure? Alternating vowels and consonants is fairly universal.
- V-2 8y agoThis is only one component of the optimization though. Eg. letter frequency will be different. For instance, the relative frequency of "z" is about 4.9% in Polish, whereas as low as 0.07% in English (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency). The same goes for what the most popular 2-grams and 3-grams are, and conversely, the calculated stroke path (or how much do the typist's fingers have to 'travel', independently of the hand alternation rate), the use of the weakest fingers enforced by a given layout, etc. This likely doesn't nullify all the benefits of Dvorak, or some other English-optimized layouts - but it certainly reduces them, while the adoption cost is still the same.