Re: new Klingon spelling

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:04:57PM -0500, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > >                         And <'> does require the shift key
> >
> > Unless you have some weird funky keyboard,
>
> D'oh!  jagh DajeymeH nIteb yISuvrup!
>
> It must have been the memory of a bygone era surfacing unexpectedly despite
> the fact that I was typing <'> with no shift key even as I wrote that,
> possibly
> helped by the fact that the shift key was in fact needed for the < and >
> on either side of it, not to mention the fact that I just type so
> gosh-darned
> fast.
>
> (Some older computer keyboards, including the first ones I ever used,
> had ' as shift-7 and " as shift-2)
One of the bad things about going to Germany are the German "QWERTZ"
keyboards, which have ' on the same key as my Swedish, except you need also
hit SHIFT. Sans SHIFT, you get a hash - I'm sure you've seen a few instances
of |don#t| or similar in my posts from the last few months.

                                                            Andreas