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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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

Listening to ep303 about creoles @talkpod . Can't help but to think English is a creole. Lexicon 75% non Germanic. Grammatical gender gone; cases and verb endings virtually gone. Parent languages had those features.

— a rag man (@MisterZeche) September 13, 2018

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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