>Probably because the clerks of the Habsburg Empire that
started using typewriters in Slovakia got them from elsewhere
and didn't use them to write Slovakian? Because Slovaks used
Czech as their written language from the 15th to the 19th
century?
If Thais could develop their own typewriters, I don't see why
Slovaks couldn't also do so. At least, as far as technology is
concerned. If there were other sociolinguistic factors involved
to explain why they wouldn't have done so, however, that's
another matter.
>Come on, if typewriters are any indication of a people's
cleverness, then the QWERTY system will forever exclude western
civilization from any claim to intelligence.
Surely you know of the practical reasons for why the QWERTY
layout was developed? (Or is the story I've heard repeatedly
about performance limitations of the mechanisms just a load of
dingoes kidneys?)
Peter
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