February 21, 2006
Chinese keyboards
I've always wondered what a chinese keyboard looks like, and Slate explains it nicely. The input method editor actually sounds a lot like the method court reporters use to transcribe testimony. The stenography machines I've seen aren't full keyboards but have abbreviated keyboards. The reporters I've talked to say they can type out the sounds of certain words even if they can't write out the entire word. And they can also assign certain words and letter combinations to certain keys. Half the time I can barely peck out what I want to say using a full QWERTY keyboard, so I don't know how they can keep up with that.
Posted by Kitty at February 21, 2006 08:46 PM
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