Just if eve you wonde eading my posts… I have a defective key on my keyboad (9 yea old thinkpad, you know…), and this outputs vey funny texts since it woks only about twice out of thee. I sometimes eead my texts and find it both funny and unneving…
No! I haven’t seen anything funny about your posts, though I may now look more intently and it seems totaly possible to type a half decent sentence without having to use the key you seem to have issues with.
I’m beginning to see how missing just a single alphabetical instance can both be challenging and enightening.
Hope you will still be typing on that old machine as the moons wax and wain whilst the seasons come and go until the sun falls out of the sky.
Then you might want to have a look at the french book “La disparition” (the vanishing) written by Georges Perec, a 300 pages book written without the letter e, and the following, “Les revenantes” (the revenants), written with words all containing the letter e
(congrats for writing your post without using it btw.)
I’m installing a FP4 and I’m wondering if anyone could help me to understand the following: Schalten du ein, wenn Sie lieber freischalten möchten, ohne das Telefon aufzuwachen…
Power you on, if you’d rather unlock waking up without the phone…
(The first part is using completely wrong grammar, the middle part is fine, in the last part it’s not the phone that’s supposed to wake up, else it would be “aufzuwecken”.
Automatic translators just have to love German, both DeepL and Google get the last part wrong … although DeepL is able to get the last part for itself right without the context … interesting.)
Just thought I’d share with you this very rare glimpse of 19th Century computing.
Painted in 1879 by Edgar Degas, Edmond Duranty Working at his Computer is a remarkable and very forward-looking work. Of course the only part of the computer that’s shown, is the mouse pad …
You can see the original work in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland.
It’s no wonder that only the mousepad is shown: Edgar Degas and Edmond Duranty were having a video conference and Edgar Degas simply took a screenshot.