We all love you, shifty disco girl.
Nov. 24th, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaNote to self: There is a shift key on the right of the keyboard. Look, it's quite big, just below the enter key. You should consider using it.
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
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The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:06 am (UTC)I have a first finger, a middle finger, a fourth finger and a little finger.
No, I can't justify it. That's just how I think of them.
A while ago, a discussion cropped up on someone else's LJ, and she was keen to avoid the term "ring finger" so said "third finger". I got hopelessly confused, since I don't have a finger I'll happily call "third".
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:12 am (UTC)No, I can't justify it.
Sure you can. If it's acceptable that the big finger is the middle one then clearly we're counting the thumb as a quasi-finger. In which case the thumb would be first finger, and ring finger the fourth.
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:14 am (UTC)Finger.
Finger.
Finger.
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:20 am (UTC)I think I was heading off down the mental alley of a lisping Adam Sandler in the Wedding Finger.
Not a good place to be.
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:16 am (UTC)Sure you can.
Er, no I can't :)
Any theory which has the first finger and the fourth finger with only one finger between them is doomed.
I think it's confusion induced by seeing numbers 1-5 on piano music indicating which finger to use - but then discovering that most people call the forefinger the first finger, and attempting to reconcile these two views.
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:34 am (UTC)Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:47 am (UTC)Ah. I suppose I should have written: Sure I can!
Any theory which has the first finger and the fourth finger
First finger...? Ah, you must mean the thumb!
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:50 am (UTC)But we've always known that
Fingery Fun
Date: 2004-11-24 04:27 am (UTC)Re: Fingery Fun
Date: 2004-11-24 04:29 am (UTC)Re: Fingery Fun
Date: 2004-11-24 04:35 am (UTC)Re: Fingery Fun
Date: 2004-11-24 04:53 am (UTC)I forget (a) whether she was seriously suggesting it shouldn't be used for this reason, (b) whether she was seriously suggesting it shouldn't be used for some more scientific reason, (c) whether she was just telling me about a superstition and (d) which finger it was anyway.
Re: Fingery Fun
Date: 2004-11-24 05:31 am (UTC)"Ooh, you want to rub some ointment on that."
Re: Fingery Fun
Date: 2004-11-24 11:43 pm (UTC)...which by mental association brings me to the Japanese words, which are in order starting with the thumb:
Note that since 指 [yubi] can mean either finger or toe, at least the first and last of these are technically ambiguous and could mean big/little toe instead. I don't recommend typing with your toes, however.