Durarara!! (light novel)
| I'm rewatching Durarara, and I'd never noticed before, but Celty's keyboard has latin letters. Is that a normal thing in Japan? Shouldn't her keyboard be in hiragana? Just curious :) |
| Even though it seems counter intuitive, the current J-keyboard is based on qwerty. In previous times (the eighties? I'm not really sure) Japan had keyboards with hiragana on the keys, but it was kind of complicated, and Japan actually has its own set of roman letters in the kunrei transcription, so it was easier to adapt keyboards to this (56 syllables vs 26 letters). To explain in IT terms, each syllable has a vowel, so when the same one is used (ta, ma, na, ka, ra...) you use on key on the keyboard for each even though the a information is redundant. But in kunrei, ka isn't か, it's ka. |
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| Huh, that makes sense, thanks! |
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