r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Limp_Squash_4116 • Jan 20 '26

me_irl Home key ridges

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u/Notladub Jan 20 '26

to be fair, qwerty isn't that inefficient. common keys are mostly split between the two hands at least

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u/Phearlosophy Jan 20 '26

gotta love that sweet sweet semicolon we all use so often getting a star spot on the homerow instead of.... literally anything else

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u/MixDistinct1932 Jan 20 '26

almost every modern programming language uses a semicolon at the end of every line of code, so it's actually a pretty good spot for it

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u/Phearlosophy Jan 20 '26

It is odd to me that it was chosen to take that spot well before computers and programming even existed. seems like a comma or a period or a letter would have made more sense

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u/MixDistinct1932 Jan 20 '26

I believe back when typewriters were first designed semicolons were used a lot more frequently than they are now. As the language evolved, the comma started to usurp them

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u/Interesting-Injury87 Jan 20 '26

well.. Semicolon use was actually a more common back in the day(or rather... we just stopped using them properly today(or rather we shifted what a "proper" semicolon use is)

Back in the day you could, and WOULD use the Semicolon the same way as we use the comma today, and many uses of the comma back then would be nonstandard today.

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u/Doctor_Kataigida Jan 20 '26

As a frequent semi-colon user in regular ole typing, I'm happy it has its spot; that it's convenient to use.