A QWERTY Experiment
In a paragraph where the letters of the words are jumbled, except for the first and the last letters, the paragraph is still comprehensible.
Now, in my leftly-disabled state, I wanted to find out what happens if I use only the letters that would ordinarily be typed with my right hand.
----- i- - -----in l---y ------bl- -h-- -oul- -- ---lu---.
Or using only my left hand:
There is a certa-- -eaf- vegeta--e t-at w---d be exc--ded.
There must be a perfectly logical explanation why the most commonly used letters are typed with the left hand – traditionally the weaker hand.
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The Curse of Qwerty
Thanks wizard.
If only you'd been a minute quicker.
Now that Dex chap is going to be all smarmy and pompous for another month.
Dusty
It's because the right hand is generally busy doing other things so the left hand gets to have the keyboard fun.
Semi
Sometimes you worry me.
No Dusty
Its you we have to worry about.
I meant drinking tea, eating biscuits, smoking, etc, etc, etc
I don't know what you were thinking. Tsk, tsk
Quite right Semi
Must be spending too much time with Dex
Dusty.
I see no one's googled it yet.
Mmm. Fifty bucks Deks comes up with an answer.
You're on.
I think Gary's Googlepecker will win. Unless his photon gun gets him in the Lego.
Googlepecker se gat!
It seems it's just a coincidence as a result of the QWERTY layout:
"An unfortunate consequence of the QWERTY layout, for right-handed typists, is that many more words can be spelled using only the left hand. In fact, thousands of English words can be spelled using only the left hand, while only a couple of hundred words can be typed using only the right hand."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
Hey, anything that's gonna cost Muffin 50 bucks is worth doing...
OK Ramon, you win. Here's your 50 bucks
Keep the change.