The impact of the QWERTY keyboard
A keyboard's arrangement could have an impact on how we think about the words we type.
The QWERTY keyboard may attach more positive meanings to words with more letters on the right side of the layout. Letter combinations that fall on the right side of the keyboard are easier to type, lending a positive meaning.
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It should be noted that the literal meanings of words certainly outweigh their QWERTY inflected association.
In several languages, there are keyboard variations with unique punctuation keys located in different places. There are also more letters on the right than the left. In the future, researchers plan to study the effects of other kinds of keyboards.
Early typewriters frequently jammed. When letters were typed in rapid succession, they sometimes stuck together.
The QWERTY layout was invented in 1878 as a response to this problem. The layout has stuck ever since. With the transition from typewriters to personal computers, it became widespread.
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- In historical linguistics, it refers to the any change in the meaning(s) of a word through the development of languages over the course of time.
- Also called semantic shift, lexical change and semantic progression.
- "Semantic change is not a change in meaning per se, but the addition of a meaning to the semantic system or the loss of a meaning from the semantic system while the form remains constant." --David P. Wilkins
- “What’s the meaning of life?” Assumes that there’s a single meaning.
- “Does my life have meaning?” Assumes (or at least hints) at a “yes” or “no” answer.
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