Should we update the Alphabet Chart?
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 7:16PM I heard a kid sing the Alphabet song the other day. I think we have not kept up with times when it comes to alphabets. Seriously, don't we type more compared to writing. My wrists start hurting if I try to write something more than two pages. And going forward I feel kids would be typing more. So here is what I have devised. We need to fill in some of the gaps. Also should it be Y for Yahoo! or YouTube. OR W for Wikipedia or Windows? And as June san says, we need a Qwerty song. F for Flickr or Firefox.
Some twitter responses to this and my responses.
natthefatcat: @preetamrai If we have to teach them in QWERTY order, that means we - the teachers- gotta learn in in QWERTY order as well. LAZYYYY. about 4 hours ago from web
Preetam: Yes, so I made this chart above.
?theurbanrant: Qwerty was solvg a probm with manual typewriters RT @preetamrai: Why don't we teach kids alphabets in QWERTY order.no reason2 do ABC order.
Preetam: Yes, but I think Qwerty is here to stay until the keyboard (both on screen and physical) are around.
misscalamity: @preetamrai then what would become of the alphabet song?!
Preetam: Lets make a Qwerty song
?kengggg: @preetamrai what about DVORAK?
Preetam: I think Qwerty is the most popular one.
nhklein: @preetamrai You mean those under the British imperial history & the USA? The French, Germans, Spanish & other ABC users to not use QWERTY
Preetam: But don't the French and the Germans have their own alphabet charts anyway. The French can have an Azerty chart.
Reader Comments (3)
There'll be a lot to change - dictionaries, encyclopedias, all manner of reference books, the index pages of every book. Kids who don't know the ABCs won't be able to use old books. Lots of computer software would break since ASCII and Unicode are arranged in ABC order.
Anyway it doesn't help very much to learn the QWERTY order consciously. If you asked me what comes after QWERTY on the keyboard, I wouldn't be able to tell you, but my finger muscle memory knows where all the letters are.
good points. specially about the qwerty typing consciously. The point about reference books, don't we just use the search feature now. Yes, the things of the past will be hard to search.
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