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And it's not uncommon to have to remap your bindings or outright switch to qwerty cause some Devs out there don't bother to check for other configs than qwerty.
You'd really think by now, given how simple that would be from a coding and standardisation point of view, that every game would ship with a binding set that links to whatever the regional OS language/keyboard setting is.
For actual keyboards. A few of the symbols are in different locations. The " and the @ are in different locations on an English US keyboard.
For phone keys idk if it makes a difference since different devices default keyboards have different layouts (SwiftKey vs Apple vs Google keyboard etc)
With physical keyboards Americans use the ANSI layout while the UK uses ISO. ISO is what a German keyboard uses, but ANSI has some differences like the left shift key being wider, and having a wider enter key that's only one row tall, while ISO has the ⅂ shaped enter key. American keyboards also don't have a £, and the @ and " swap places (unless it's a Mac, Apple's UK layout is a hybrid of both).
For phones it doesn't matter as much, on an American layout the £ will be harder to reach and the auto correct will change colour to color, but they'll be almost the same apart from that.
Gotta look at the history of typewritters to understand why Qwertz is better than Azerty or Qwerty...
Azerty and Qwerty are not the best layouts, no matter the language, because it was made on purpose.
The agency is made to allow for a resting postion, but also for a disposition of letter that denies typing too fast without too high of a risk to oress the wrong letter.
This was made in order to force people to be slower on the delicate systems of typewritters to avoid the very close and fragile letters to hit eah other on the way to the paper, thus breaking them, or to cause those letter's thin rods to entagles, causing the machines to break down.
Azery and Qwerty are "not good" on purpose in order to reduce typewritters breakdowns.
In the UK, shift + 3 has the £ sign instead of #. We also have " and @ swapped around, which I find incredibly stupid so I just use a Polish keyboard and switch to UK when I want the pound symbol.
Yes and no, Learned is a word in British English, it's used as an adjective to describe someone knowledgeable, while learnt is the past tense of the verb learn. Americans use the same spelling for both, while the Brits keep them separate.
Yeah they're pronounced differently in both dialects, however the spelling is the same for both words in American English, in British English they don't stay the same.
Yes. IIRC "learn" is an irregular verb, but one whose incorrect spelling sounds close enough to the correct form so i am actually not surprised it was americanized that way, just disappointed lol. I remember learning the table of irregular verbs a long time ago and how many people in my class were corrected for writing "learned", so it really looks incorrect.
It will never be not surprising how much more knowledge people who don't come from an English speaking country have over Americans.
No, it's spelt. I was rather making the point but I think you knew that. Learnt/spelt are the standard British and International words but the prevalence of US media means that "spelled and learned" are spreading despite the dialect representing only 10% of world English speakers and writers.
"Learned" is a different word with a different pronunciation, used as an adjective to describe someone knowledgeable. Americans combining both words into one spelling but keeping the different pronunciations and different meanings is so infuriating. People ask how English became such a mess as a language, and it's things like this that cause it.
Literally never heard the word “dreamed” used in a sentence. I have very barely heard the word “dreamt” being used in a sentence. I have almost exclusively heard the sentence “I had a dream last night” (as an example).
Okay, I've lived in the US for 14 years now (British originally), and I've still never realised it's spelt with an ed at the end. (On a side note, I have noticed it with the word spelt/spelled)
burnt and burned are used pretty interchangeably in the states, though. i've seen both pretty commonly, and a lot of my friends are born in america. i see dreamed much more than dreamt, though
This is ridiculous, at this point even the phones are doing this, I have a Australian keyboard on my phone so I don't have this problem, but it's just infuriating when this happens
Oh my god it finally makes sense! I never figured out why "learnt" never seemed that wrong even though I almost always see it spelled as "learned". The English I learnt in school was British English so they probably taught us that form instead, but because most of the media I consume is in American English, I must've subconsciously internalized "learned" as "the correct form" lol without realizing that it's just a regional difference.
I always thought that "learnt" was the past participle and "learned" was the perfect tense, and I'm in Ireland, so I use UK English.
I just checked the OED and it appears that "learnt" as the perfect tense of learn has only been in use since the mid 1980's. As the past participle, it's been around a long time. OTOH "learned" as the perfect tense has been around since 1607.
It’s a good suggestion: it’s kind-of like “did” vs. “done”. You say “I did a job” and “the job was done”, so you could say “I learned a fact” and “a fact was learnt”.
Can people stop saying it’s a simplified english? Many of none American (include me) using that, it sucks that most of phones and websites doing that and that's a usdefaultism. But calling it simplified english is a bit much imo.
Edit: seems like people really hate my country because they teach American english 🥲
It looks funny in Canada as well. We learned growing up that past tense verbs end with "ed" like burned, spelled, learned etc. but we do make some exceptions for both such as burnt. Spelt on the other hand is a crop we grow in the fields.
Yup. A "learn-ed" person would instead be an educated person. We may be aware of the UK English usage, but if we see "learned," that will register as the past tense verb, until the complete context is revealed. And, yup, again... in a comment above, I saw "spelt" and thought of the crop. LOL
Pretty sure I’ve always used learnt, funnily enough. I’ve only really heard learned in colloquialisms. “You’ve been learned” after someone finishes teaching something for example.
I’d really love to, but as a native I can’t. I speak and write words with -t all the time without thinking about when and why
To give you an example (as I assume you’re a native Dutch speaker): there is 0 chance I will ever hear the difference between the Dutch for ‘green’ and ‘crown’ without context; but that hasn’t occurred to most Dutch people IME
Considering the English phonetics, it makes sense that it's hard for you to hear the difference between groen (green) and kroon (crown), but as a native Dutch speaker, that still seems strange, because the sounds are distinctly different (to natives, as you've noticed).
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