Iäm in Berlin right now tzping on a kezboard that is about to make me go bonkers. It is apparentlz a QWERTZ kezboard and the Z and Y are mixed up and all of the punctuation is a total freakout. While Iäm sure this is important for some strange SerboßAustrioßHungarian languaged like Flemish, I assure zou itäs a huge pain in the rear.
Basicallz I should have brought mz own laptop. Oh well. All mistakes in the post were made bz me trzing to tzpe normallz on this frakking thing.
Don’t be lazy, switch the language. Takes two clicks.
LOL, how about ‘important for german’?
I can’t buy Apple Notebooks with Swiss German keyboard layout in Spain, that’s why I don’t buy new ones very often. Apple offers only Spanish or US Keyboards in their shop.
It is only the stupid Germans, French and Belgians that use non Qwerty keyboards ;) the rest of Europe uses US International keyboards :)
every language has its own needs regards to the letters… I’m french and using a AZERTY keyboard, and it’s so mcuh easier for to type things in french, which I do most of the time, but I guess it’s OK for english too, as the english language has not much of special characters… é, à, è, ë, É ê, are REALLY easy for me.
I’ve been using a QWERTY keyboard during a year, and it was a nightmare typing good french on it…
But all these layouts have been implemented for Typewriters, so why not a universal keyboard? just asking
See: This yera I travelled all over Europe and discovered that *every* country, that has it’s own language, has it’s own keyboard layout. And that’s fine.
Be happy that all computer languages are optimized for your layout. And take it as a new experience, that somewhere things are actually different from what they are in the States. :)
US International (With dead keys), and I can type all the Dutch, German, English and French I will ever need…
You just have to get used to the dead keys…
guess what? for me it feels the same typing on an american keyboard. so what’s the story here?
and why is flemish strange?
sorry, but i find that “story” latently racist.
and by the way: Flemish is NOT a language. Its Dutch and they use AZERTY!
AZERTY! that’s even worsey!
Except for the dutch dutch of course, they use qwerty.
What a stupid post.
Please respect European languages. Europe has more languages and countries than the US has states. If you don’t like it, bring your own keyboard.
agreed.
just a silly post that gives fuel to those cliches about US citizens being inflexible and unable to looking at things from a different perspective.
as mentioned above: just change the keyboard layout and type blind!
And that Europeans can’t take a joke?
There’s difference between joke and insult.
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
Nuno is right, otherwise – you are too stupid to type blinded and switch to US Layout …
I like the QWERTZ. At the Company i have to use a lot of QWERTY Keyboards and for me its not a problem to use it. I can switch the Layout in my Head.
I totally agree,
I am German as well, living in Asia since several years, using either US-style QWERTY (mostly available here in retail) or japanese, korean or even chinese keyboards without ANY problem. EVEN if I have to type in German I just select “German” on my language bar (I have set-up 7 languages there) and type half blind to hit those y, z, ß, ä, ö and ü…
Even Windows is so easy to use in other languages as well, they have standard icons and usually in a dialog box the icon left is for “OK” and right one for “CANCEL”
Think about your “racial” or “stupid” comments…
nothing to do with jokes…
Dear Sir,
you are example, why americans are seen as arogant assholes in europe.
If you expect that we respect you, you should respect us and our keyboards.
WTF!
Alex
Welcome guy from 7bit-country to the rest of th world :-)
Spoiled Americano scum!
Just kidding America, you know I loves ya.
Since when has the rest of Europe used a US International keyboard? A US keyboard has a different punctuation layout to a British keyboard and presumably other European QWERTY layouts.
And yes I do agree this does seem a little rude to say it’s a stupid language and stuff but it’s only a joke I’m sure and meant in good humour. Doesn’t do much for American relations mind! haha.
Are you sure you aren’t in Germany? Sounds like a decent keyboard for typing German.
And stop wasting everyone’s time with this xenophobic guff.
I am surprised and rather disappointed to read such blatant stupidity on this website that I normally enjoy a lot. Not only is the post a typical example of american narrow-minded arrogance, it’s also factually wrong as there are quite a lot of countries that have their own keyboard layouts – and for good reasons. Try typing Polish, Greek, Russian etc with an american keyboard and you’ll eventually see waht I mean.
Or perhaps try German. Believe it or not, we stupid Krauts do really use those strange letters. I guess it’s pathetic that we don’t speak and write only English like the rest of the world (except France), but hey – that’s how we are.
I’m glad so many commenters on here know what a joke is and take it as such… :-/
Joke is when you make fun of someone or something and it is no joke when you insult other people, languages and keyboards.
We europeans know to read and speak your language. Do you know to speak or read one of ours?
Alex
He’s clearly being ironic in the post. I found it funny. This isn’t a post slamming Europe; he probably typed it after mistaken the z for the y in his previous posts this morning.
i read and speak polish and spanish and a little german and russian. is that enough? I was just having a tough time waking up after a 7 hour flight and then trying to wrestle with this wonky keyboard. I also thought it was funny how I kept replacing y with z.
if english is enugh for god , it must be enough for mankind too, eh? Why dont yuo just stay in alabama until all those weird foreigners have left europe. Or until you learn the difference beteen “sää tänään” and “saatanaan”.
Damn, girls, chill out.
Seriously. If they can’t take a f*ck, joke ‘em.
Yes, we are all for standardisation. We Europeans will start using US keyboards once the US have gone 100% metric…
metric is sub standard! it only goes up to 10! feet go up to 12
Inches john, I think you mean inches.
Ya know, the post doesn’t actually call any language stupid. It’s the idiots in the comments that do that. He’s just lamenting his trouble with adjusting to a keyboard that is otherwise alien to him. Anybody that has done any traveling can appreciate it. So give him a break.
I agree!
I´m having the same trouble with the US kezboard ;)
LOL
Those crazy, insecure, cry-baby europeans.
Seeing insults where no insults exist.
Hey, you can still type ‘frakking’ on it, so it’s still a perfectly cromulent keyboard.
this post was made for techcrunch ;)
as others have pointed out you could have just changed the language settings for the keyboard.. failing that you could start complaining that the world doesnt speak english..
hahahahahahhahahahahaha