Korean Job Discussion Forums

[chaz47]

I am new to the Hangeul thing... I just now realized that all the vowels are typed with your right hand and all the consonants are typed with your left hand... does anyone think this might have some significance?

I think with Hangeul's original emphasis on logical structure and clarity is taken one step further with this layout...

I wonder though, from a neuropsychological what significance this might have on Koreans in general... any thoughts?

[the_beaver]

None. QWERTY was invented to make us type slowly so we wouldn't gum up the keys, but by the time Koreans made keyboards it wasn't necessary so they laid it out logically. Vowels on the right. Aspirated consonants on the bottom left. Normal consonants on the middle and upper left. Tensified sounds on the upper left.

[Hater Depot]

Windows XP has a virtual keyboard in which initial consonants are on the right; vowels in the middle; and final consonants (badchim) on the left. An interesting idea but it requires the shift key too often.

[out of context]

It makes sense to put the characters most likely to occur next to each other farther apart, on opposite hands if possible. If you're typing quickly, it's much easier to type "social" than "strews". Since so many words in Korean have the form consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel, putting consonants on one side and vowels on the other makes sense along those lines.

[mithridates]

When I started learning the Dvorak keyboard I was surprised at how much it felt like it does when I type in Korean.