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Two keys that would probably work in this case would be the "A" and the "F" keys. The student failing knows they are getting an "F" and they want an "A" so they swap the keys on the keyboard. Teacher types in an "F" but the student received and "A". The smart kids that earned at "A" would get an "F" and the teacher gets all the flak.

Whoa, someone in the cube next to me just AFRTED.

I'm surprised I haven't heard of it being used before. Way back when I was in school I did that sort of thing with room numbers (including bathrooms). It was a giggle watching people rush into rooms and then rush out with a puzzled look on their faces.

Any non-touch typist could be fooled by that one. Especially if the pranksters limit the changes to just a couple of keys. What the heck, even a touch typist could stumble over it, figuring they are 'fat-fingering'. Who would think that there would be that sort of "hardware" problem.

I worked with a guy that had brought in a Dvorak keyboard, as he had taught himself how to type with that layout. One time the supervisor tried to use his computer for something, and was not able to figure out why everything he typed looked wrong. He was saying something about a virus, when he noticed the keys, That was the day he learned what a Dvorak layout was.

I thought they didn't talk..! qwerty was designed to prevent errors due to keys too close in rapid typing. dvorak was meant to be a better environment. wrong, like eubonics, and esperanto. good ideas live, the others are forgotten, due to not being viable.

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Actually, the QWERTY layout was designed to prevent mechanical jams when two or more keys are pressed nearly simultaneously. It was designed as an inefficient layout that forced a delay, preventing the jamming of keys by fast typistsby forcing them to reach farther and with alternate hands for common patterns (wh, ing, th, gh, etc). The Dvorak layout on the other hand (pun intended) was designed to maximize typing speed in a computerized environment where mechanical jams were impossible.

It's not that it was a bad idea, it's just that by the time it was invented it was too different from the standard layout that all typists were familiar with. That's not the same as with Eubonics, which is just a documentation of a particular speech pattern and dialect of English. It is a little similar to Esperanto, which was an attempt to resolve the Babel of languages but ran into the same problem of being "different" and "non-standard" that the Dvorak keyboard ran it to. Can you imagine the French dropping what was once the language international diplomacy for an invented language? Sacré bleu!

Think about the history of IBM DOS and Microsoft Windows versus Unix and Linux in the business world. PCs did not become widespread in the business world until IBM put its Imprimatur on them with the IBM PC. As the 800-pound gorilla, they held sway back in the day. Any PC had to be "IBM Compatible" to join the corporate ranks. The rest, as they say, is history.

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