(Resending, guess I was not joined to chat!)
Thanks! To test the whole QWERTY story, I converted to (?forgot the name of the other one?) for a while and never noticed an appreciable difference. I remain confused. > On Dec 9, 2019, at 5:07 PM, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote: > > People have been putting things in alphabetic order for about 3500 > years—because it’s useful. There are variations in the order of letters and > what letters are included in English, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic etc but all > known alphabets begin with A or equivalent. There were alphabets even before > the phonetic alphabet. > > Another interesting question is why keyboards were not arranged > alphabetically—it goes back to the experience of telegraph operators and the > mechanical difficulty of keys arranged alphabetically and thus the QWERTY > keyboard was designed. > > Donna Y > [email protected] > > >>> On Dec 9, 2019, at 3:55 PM, 'Jim Russell' via General >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why are so many things arraigned alphabetically, when there is absolutely no >> intrinsic order to the letters of the alphabet? (Is there anything else that >> needs a mumbled child's song to remember?) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
