qwerty versus azerty

Alas, this blog and its posts are simple musings and rants, a sort of laugh-at-me-or-with-me kind of tale.

However, I'm a mediocre story teller. (Lucky for me, you didn't have to see me use google to abc-spelling check the word "mediocre".) You have been forewarned!

The first post is ... I'm sure there's an adjective in the dictionary, be it Webster's or Oxford or Urban, that could describe these awkward, ugly, confused, and mentally-constipated faces I'm making at the screen as I try to write.

I'm sure an English teacher at some point told me to always stick to the basics, then again, I could be bullshitting. How very Schrödinger's cat. (And you bet your ass I googled that. More for the umlaut than anything else really, since my qwerty keyboard lacks any character. (lol. a dad joke.)

qwerty definitely got the short end of the stick when it came to keyboard design. qwerty has the dollar sign $, the at sign @, the ampersand & (which is just a fancy way of saying and sign), oh! and let's not forget the tilde ~.

But I mean, come on! azerty has got all that QND (lol again.):
~these math guys: the one degree ¹, the square ², the temperature symbol °, the section sign §, the eighths ⅛ , ⅜ , ⅝ , and ⅞, the negation ¬ (a favorite of mine. for your semantic linguists, your philosophers, your coders and programmers), the classic operations ×, ÷, and remember this guy from high school science? ±,
~these money guys: the euro €, the yen ¥, the pound £, and the cent ¢ ,
~these old and current dudes: Mu µ (no, not the pokémon, the 12th Greek letter), Omega Ω (the 24th Greek letter), Thorn þ (from Old English now found in modern Icelandic), this vowel and letter found in Scandinavian languages ø, and the German letter Eszett ß (in English, sharp s), and probably the funnest thing about high school Spanish ¡ and ¿,
~not to mention these dudes (é, ç, à, ù, è), and sounds with the little hat (you know, a circumflex: â, ô, û, î, ê, ŷ, ŵ, ẑ, ĉ, ĝ, ŝ, ĵ), with the umlaut (ë, ä, ï, ö, ÿ, ẅ, ü), and with any diacritic (å, ā, ă, ǎ, ȧ, ą),
~and let's not forget the ones I found just by pressing alt+shift+any key: ™, ¤, ¶ (a nod to that English teacher I mentioned earlier), and ©.

But enough fun. I was going to stick to the basics, wasn't I?
Let's see,
I'm a linguist, a recycler, a music enthusiast and festival junkie, a tacky fashion expert, a rambler, a fangirl, a hooper, a laugher, not a dancer but that doesn't stop me, and a volunteer guinea pig for any home cooked meal.
I'm one part funny and one part nerd.