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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6896 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 14 12 May 2009 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
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Confession time: What are your fingers up to on the keyboard?
Looking at my keyboard, purchased some six months ago, I notice one of the keys is already clearly worn, to the point of being difficult to read, and two others show slight signs of wear. I use the keyboard daily to type mainly in English and Spanish, and to a lesser extent in Swedish, Finnish and Chinese with pinyin input. What about your keyboard? Which keys do you wear down first? Typing in what languages? In my case it is the E that takes the worst beating, the S shows some signs of wear and then just barely noticeable wear of the A. As far as I can tell, the other keys appear pristine. The left hand shift key is worn too, about as much as the E, but let's limit this to the alphanumeric keys. Edited by Hencke on 12 May 2009 at 4:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 14 12 May 2009 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
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I have worn out one mouse.
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 3 of 14 12 May 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
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My keyboard is still perfect after 4 years of intensive use.
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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5925 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 4 of 14 12 May 2009 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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S, E, N and L are fast disappearing but this is a cheap keyboard.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 14 12 May 2009 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
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I've worn out several mice, and had various keyboards stop working to various degrees and in various ways, but the letters on the keyboard don't tend to fade for me.
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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6266 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 6 of 14 12 May 2009 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
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Well, none of my keys are wearing. I've had this keyboard for about a year. I don't know if you just type more than I do, or if I type more gently, or if my keyboard is less likely to wear down or what.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7017 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 14 12 May 2009 at 9:05pm | IP Logged |
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Mine aren't faded at all, although it's only a few weeks old! My previous keyboard wasn't faded either (just dirty!) but my old mouse would require a "gentle" tap to persuade it to co-operate.
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6036 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 8 of 14 13 May 2009 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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All the Cyrillic letters are slowly disappearing from my laptop's keyboard. I sprayed them myself (with a template) because I couldn't find the model of laptop I was looking for with both Cyrillic and Latin on the kbd.
The Latin alphabet is more persistent though. I don't know what they use to print those letters, they're utterly unerasable. Edited by Sennin on 13 May 2009 at 12:37am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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