• sicarius@lemmy.world
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      UK keyboards have the " and the @ symbols reversed from the US layout.
      And we mix and match our units of measurement. So
      milk = liters.
      Beer = pints.
      Distance = miles (if driving).
      Distance = km if running or cycling.
      Distance = inches if penis

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      could have happened on a canadian french qwerty keyboard: ! is shift-1, and " is shift-2

      Picture of a canadian french QWERTY keyboard, centered on the 1 and 2 keys. The 1 key as the exclamation mark above the 1, and the 2 key has the quotation mark above the 2.

      this could have happened on other layouts too, probably

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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      Shift-1 is ! Shift-2 is "

      That’s how it is on a standard British QWERTY keyboard.

      ~I’m assuming you’re American given that you can’t comprehend anyone’s technology or way of life being different to yours…~

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        I didn’t know that the gb layout was different, so thanks for the knowledge, but kindly sod off with the smartass remark, thanks love

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          His remark was spot on. You are an arrogant USian assuming everyone around is using the same keyboard layout as you do.

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              And I’m the arrogant one?

              Yes, I am glad I cleared it up for you.

              Oh, BTW, you do know that typing word “blocked” doesn’t actually do anything, don’t you?

    • tomi000@lemmy.world
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      On a German keyboard, I think ! Is Shift-1 and " is Shift-2, but we measure in cm so the message wouldnt make sense

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      Depends on the layout. My QWERTZ has ! on shift-4 and " on shift-2.

      Lots of bilingual peeps have multiple layouts on hot-swap.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      It may have not been a typo in the sense they hit the wrong key attempting to type an exclamation point, but a Freudian slip of their mind while typing that caused them to type the quotation mark.

      Like if you were to look at Venus and want to say “Venus is bright tonight” but instead say “My penis is pretty big.” It’s a really common mistake.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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        But why would you be hitting enter when you haven’t hit ! yet? That would require you to skip !, to be typing at a high wpm but still be error prone, and for you to make three mistakes in a row and then for you to not immediately edit or delete and retype the message.

        This takes low accuracy (so a typical hunt and peck user), high speed (so a usual touch typer), and a lack of technical knowledge, all rolled up with multiple failures. Nah, this didn’t happen.