top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The key to the right of Å is you looking at this keyboard.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We're all just going to ignore the ,|'/` key?

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the left side is equally cursed

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How often do most people use § and ½ !? Is a dedicated key really necessary?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Similiar to Swiss one but worse.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ok I'm probably the idiot here, but why not just make one key umlauts, and one for both directions of apostrophe, and then make it a key combo with the standard vowel?

    Like how shift+a = A, it would be umlaut+a = ä, and shift+umlaut+a = Ä?

    How do the real keys (pic) even work?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm guessing (not sure) that AltGr, visible in the picture, switches between the two options like Shift would. Shift still switches case.

    I think the main reason they didn't make an umlaut modifier is that ä is considered a distinct letter from a. It would be like asking why have a key for w ("double u") when it could have been typed as uu. Not a perfect analogy but the best I can think of right now.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Swiss here, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

    In all seriousness; it's for german, french and italian. Guess it was just determined to use the limited keys more effieciently in typing. And some are combinators and 9 of 10 people don't know which or what or how.

    https://kbdlayout.info/KBDSG/

    Ah, btw, we can only type uppercase ÄÖÜ via capslock.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This looks like a Norwegian/Swedish keyboard. What’s infuriating about it?

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's a nordic keyboard, and it's infuriating that it's imposible to tell which key is Æ and which is Ø. Just decide on one key for each for f..ks sake.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's easy. If you're swedish, look for the swedish letters. If you're danish, look at the first letter, and if you're norwegian look at the second.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s easy.

    Just be Swedish.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As someone who isn't clued up on Nordic languages and has no idea how any of this is supposed to be pronounced, my brain just went to the overtones for help

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Æ = Like the A in (American) "asshole"
    Å = Like the A in (British) "awful".
    Ø = Like the U in (American) "Ugly".

    As a Scandinavian, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses Ø instead of O because they think it looks cool. Sure, whatever, but it makes reading it really insufferable. Imagine if someone typed your name as UnduBrani and expected you to pronounce it the same while not tripping over decades of reading practice.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ø = Like the U in "Ugly".

    Not like German Ö? Or French "eu" as in l'heur or l'Europe? I can't seem to find any English words with the sound I'm thinking of though. In some dialects "curry" might possibly be approximated as [körri] but that's not very helpful... (Coincidentally, Ö is also the face I made when I read this)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Different countries have different languages, alphabets and keyboard layouts. Scandinavian countries keyboards are quite commonly produced together because they share most but not all of the letters, symbols and positions. This looks pretty standard to me.

    Edit: As a user from respective country you learn fast to read automatically the position for shared keys before you learn touch typing or looking for an uncommonly used symbol. The real annoyance is when laptop makers switch up key positions because they think they know better.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    To explain more specifically for those that are, like me, curious but unfamiliar:

    • Top left of each of those keys is the Danish layout
    • Top right is Norwegian
    • Bottom right is Swedish
    • The Å is the same in all three so it can just be by itself
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is because someone can't be arsed to make a dedicated Norwegian/Swedish/Danish keyboard. Norway and Denmark uses æ/ø/å. But ofc not the same key position. Sweden ä/ö/å. The same goes for several of the other keys. What they type depends on language used

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How do you pronounce that letter? There's a Danish band I've been getting into lately, MØL, but I don't know how to say it. I've been saying "mole" in my head, but I doubt that's right. It seems to get romanized as "oe" so would it be pronounced "mo-el"?

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The Ø is pronounced as eg. the vowel sound in "learn" or the vowel sound in "bird".

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [+] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Apropriate time to say the Norwegian alphabet is the best?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f488uJAQgmw (Funny song about why Norways alphabet is the best)

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I bet that keyboard feels terrible to type on.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Shortcut for writing System of a Down lyrics

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›