Actual conversation

[misterx]

Mel: What does QWERTY stand for?
Mrx: [pauses... realizes she's not kidding] It, uh, stands for QWERTY.
Mel: [just looks at me]
Mrx: Here, look... [shows her keyboard on blackberry] q-w-e-r-t-y.
Mel: Oh. Well, I didn't know, I've never had one of those.
Mrx: Hon, every keyboard you've *ever used* is laid out like this.
Mel: Don't be like that, I didn't know.

Ow. My brain. My world view...

Comments

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Well, it's possible (though unlikely) she's more familiar with the Dvorak keyboard! :D

Just...you know, playing Devil's advocate.

[asbrand.livejournal.com]

*facepalm*



-Az

[dasenergi.livejournal.com]

Well, umm.. does she know "home row"?
asdf jkl;
space bar

[theldara.livejournal.com]

I still get annoyed that the on-screen keyboard on the self-checkout machine at the grocery store is in alphabetical order. That drives me crazy when I have to look something up!

[midnightsrain.livejournal.com]

Hey, some of us just do. We don't necessarily understand what the process or implementation may be labeled, we just know that's the way it works.

If I had never worked on a MAC, I'd have never understood WYSIWYG.
Just my 2.

[nonspecific.livejournal.com]

Yeah... someone had to point it out to me too... when I got my phone I was like "Qwerty keyboard??" I'm more likely to recognize the asdf line, I don't think about the top one.

[melanie.livejournal.com]

now, if it were called the "ASDF" keyboard, i would have known right away what that meant.



just me...