342: Mailbag of Vague

We are once again diving into our voluminous mailbag.

Was the QWERTY layout designed to slow you down? Is English a creole language? Why does a word keep popping up over and over after you first hear it? And what is dispositive?

We’ll get to the bottom of it on this episode of Talk the Talk.


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Cutting Room Floor 342: Mailbag of Vague

The team discuss typing styles, education and gender, and tell crap jokes.

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Show notes

The Lies You’ve Been Told About the Origin of the QWERTY Keyboard – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/275537/

Yasuoka and Yasuoka: On the Prehistory of QWERTY (PDF)
https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/139379/1/42_161.pdf

The Great Keyboard Debate: QWERTY versus Dvorak (PDF)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kathryn_Hempstalk/publication/237105161_The_Great_Keyboard_Debate_QWERTY_versus_Dvorak/links/552c315e0cf2e089a3acc61c/The-Great-Keyboard-Debate-QWERTY-versus-Dvorak.pdf

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon • Damn Interesting
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/

You Know How When You Learn a New Word, You See It Everywhere? Science Knows Why
https://www.sciencealert.com/you-know-how-when-you-learn-a-new-word-you-see-it-everywhere-here-s-why

9.The Grammar of Middle English and Rise of a Written Standard – Wikisofia
https://wikisofia.cz/wiki/9.The_Grammar_ofMiddle_English_and_Rise_of_a_Written_Standard


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2 Comments

  1. Bronwyn Tillman

    22 October 2018 at 6:41 pm

    hey I wanted to leave a comment about the bit where they said they only use girls for computers for giving directions? That is wrong. They have left out Holly from Red Dwarf (he was male for most of the show). Also they have left out Zen from Blakes 7. That was a male voice

  2. Bronwyn Tillman

    22 October 2018 at 7:06 pm

    also have to make comment about sacrificing a limb..I AM a leftie. I would not sacrifice my left arm for anything..

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