Re: Dvorak (& Lojban)

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

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