Originally the keyboard was designed to slow the typist down. Letter-wise, our familiar keyboard is basically unchanged from the earliest specimens of the 1870s, exemplified in the 1874 Remington manual typewriter, the first commercially successful one. This keyboard deliberately forces the typist’s fingers to stretch to find the likely letter combinations of English. The purpose in 1874 was to help prevent jamming.
The Q key is safely distant from the key of Q’s constant companion—the letter U. In English, we almost never write Q without writing U next to it; thus, Q is a left-hand key while U is a right-hand one. And although technology has since banished the jamming problem, the keyboard design is too deeply entrenched ever to change.
“I have a fundraiser tonight,” Callum says. “Be ready at seven.”
“Sorry,” I say, jamming down the lever on the toaster and holding it in place, “I’ve already got plans.”
“Doing what?”
“Lord of the Rings marathon. All three movies, extended version. I won’t be finished until tomorrow around noon.”
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"Baz," I say. I sit up and set down my can of cider. (Baz hates cider, even the smell of it.)
He's standing at the front door. "Yes?"
I swallow. "When someone shows you who they are-"
Penny bursts in then, jamming Baz's shoulder with the door.
"For Crowley's sake, Bunce!"
Sayfa 9 - penny olmasaydı simon'ın kafasını duvara sürtecektim
