We all love you, shifty disco girl.
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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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Date: 2004-11-24 04:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-24 04:38 am (UTC)[Probably from Dutch pinkje, diminutive of pink, little finger.]
Which doesn't really answer the question, just transfers it. But it does at least suggest we can blame the Dutch.
OED, he say:
Date: 2004-11-24 04:39 am (UTC)pink, a.2 and n.7
Of obscure history; as adj. used chiefly in pink eye, pink nye, where it seems to be related to Du. pink ooghen: see PINK v.2; the n. is used more widely in Sc.: cf. Du. pink the little finger, also a young bullock, a steer; pointing to an original sense ‘something small’.]
A. adj. Small, contracted, diminutive; in the obs. or arch. phrase pink eye, pink nye, a small eye, a winking or half-shut eye: see PINKENY.
B. n. Sc. Something very small: a. A diminutive specimen or creature; brat, elf (obs.); b. A very small hole or spot, a small peep of light.
Re: OED, he say:
Date: 2004-11-24 04:42 am (UTC)