PSA: Please stop calling these "Irish" sublegends. They are not Irish.Submitted by DiplomacyPunIn10Did t3_ycd8hb in MechanicalKeyboards
mygodhasabiggerdick t1_itlqgrf wrote
Fer fucks sake...
I see ø and å which are uses in Scandinavian.
I see ñ used in Spanish etc
I see ä ü ö ans ß which are German (DACH)
How the fuck is this anything other than a Spaghettio-s of EU letters?
DiplomacyPunIn10Did OP t1_itlv17a wrote
It’s US International, which is intended as a multilingual layout.
Affenskrotum t1_itmsk8k wrote
I hate it
DiplomacyPunIn10Did OP t1_itmyzbj wrote
It looks odd, but it's really very useful to type with if you have to use those characters on a semi-regular basis.
mygodhasabiggerdick t1_itoxzzp wrote
As an American living in Germany, I do understand the functionality of them. My laptop does not have this, I had to learn all the shortcuts.
DiplomacyPunIn10Did OP t1_itpgbzq wrote
If you’re using Windows or Linux you should have access to this under your language settings. Mac has its own version.
mygodhasabiggerdick t1_itpk644 wrote
Yeah. US keyboard, so I need to alt-click U for ¨ then re-tap the U to get Ü
Its a pain, but Ive gotten used to it.
DiplomacyPunIn10Did OP t1_itpl0ku wrote
That’s interesting. I much prefer just holding AltGr-Y for Ü.
DHermit t1_itp0fi2 wrote
As I German I use in all the time. I work in academia and do lots of programming do an US layout is much better most of time. But from time to time I need to write a message or mail in German and then ß, ä, ö, ü come in handy.
Varpie t1_itm5156 wrote
Ah yes, the Scandinavian language, my favorite
1-more t1_itmlh3q wrote
To be fair it takes some remembering to know which uses ø vs ö for “oe” and it’s complicated by œ being used in old Norse and æ being used in a bunch of them currently. Easy to remember that ø isn’t used outside of (geographically bounded) Scandinavia but hard to remember where specifically it is used within there.
flecom t1_itojuyx wrote
A Møøse once bit my sister...
cglavan83 t1_itoklfx wrote
Those responsible for writing the comments have been sacked.
sjuswede t1_itow26y wrote
If you by "geographically bounded Scandinavia" mean the Scandinavian peninsula, your rule of thumb is incorrect.
1-more t1_itq1a5z wrote
I mean that there are Southern Sámi (Uralic language) speakers within Sweden and Norway using ø as welll as the Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroese speakers using ø. The Southern Sámi speakers are within Scandinavia, but their language isn’t related to any Indo-European language (or we haven’t found a common ancestor yet). So you could call it a Scandinavian language in that it is located entirely within Scandinavia. But if you use Scandinavian to mean a language that is “northern Germanic and related to Faroese, Swedish, Danish, both Norwegians, etc” then that would be wrong.
sjuswede t1_itqcfvr wrote
You will find that Sami does not use ø, and nor does Swedish. The only languages that do are Danish and Norwegian, and Føroyskt mál which is most definitely not connected geographically to anything Scandinavian.
Denmark and the Faroe islands are not in the Scandinavian peninsula. Only Norway is, of the countries with languages which use ø.
Scandinavian, as language, in modern times encompasses Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, with Føroysk as a minor language. Three of those use ø, meaning it is more correct (though still incorrect) to speak of them as using ø.
1-more t1_itqcn9l wrote
Omg I’m a buffoon, I meant ö the entire time like a CHUMP. sorry I got gm that switched.
that-short-girl t1_itpipj1 wrote
Denmark isn’t in Scandinavia though and they use ø rather than ö
1-more t1_itq1m93 wrote
Huh yeah guess you can’t really count it as in there since it’s over the water next to Germany. I know it’s somewhat intelligible with Swedish is all. I am playing fast and loose with the definitions here to be charitable to the original commenter.
mygodhasabiggerdick t1_itoy42k wrote
Yeah...yeah... Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish (maybe...?) .... Fuck me for being too tired to type last night. You heathens know what I meant.
Varpie t1_itoznxs wrote
Finland can be seen as a Scandinavian country, but language wise, the Nordic languages are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic. And the alphabet is not common between them, for instance Swedish doesn't have ø but use ö instead, and Icelandic has ð and more accents.
DiplomacyPunIn10Did OP t1_itpzoek wrote
In terms of keyboard layouts, though, the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Faroese, Greenlandic, and Estonian layouts are all very closely related.
Icelandic is kind of an oddball mix of Danish layout, US layout, and a few keys that don't show up anywhere else.
Kiwii2006 t1_itlu2xt wrote
ss isn’t used in CH, so only äöü DACHLULI and ß DA
Poschta t1_itpswpv wrote
DACH is one mad miss at a chance to call a region CHAD.
mygodhasabiggerdick t1_itw1ruy wrote
Deutschland
Austria
Confederation Helvetica.
Which in itself is all over the place as well...
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