One of Longest Left-Handed Words Top Row Keyboard, One of Longest Right-Handed Words Middle Row keyboard, Longest Word Bottom Row Keyboard in that order.
I’m almost certain that I’m not in sync but “in-fine-Knight (sic) repose”, seems to do the trick from a non scholastic approach to the problem; or else one might upset the Froggies with ” an unterrupted good knights (sic) sleep”, simply because Sir Galahad (the knight), who was neither good nor hero in their eyes, managed to keep his cool in the heat of battle whilst their non bon vivante heroine contender St. Jeanne D’Arc (the Dame) went and got herself all fired up over some burnt scones, or was that Galahad’s boss, the good King Arthur?…..
Rick A Roberts has beaten me to it by a couple of days, but only just seen it and solved it independently. ‘QWERTY’ style typewriter (remember those) or more typically nowadays a laptop etc. keyboard can generate these words from the first, second and third key rows respectively.
A French keyboard layout is different and unless familiar with ‘QWERTY’, such letter combinations would not lead a French person to think in those terms. Since the words, in addition, are notionally ‘English’ this would further deter them from recognising the randomness of the letters, and lack of any obvious semantic connection. An English speaker, familiar with ‘QWERTY’ might more quickly suppose that the connection is orthographic rather then thematic. At least I did! Thanks Nick. Chris Millington.
qwertyuiop : left hand letters : qwert —right hand letters yuiop were the ‘upper rank” of letters to be used less often than the second rank: asdfg hjkl;
The second rank was the most often used because it oriented the typists’ hands for “touch-typing” and punctuation.
My mother used shorthand notation while preparing to write/typewrite her boss’ notes and papers.
Because I have always been nearly deaf, I could not take dictation. I was fortunate to have some very good bosses. They would tell me what they wanted to say — and I would type their letters and memos. I also checked their math and spelling. (hundreds of thousands of dollars). All those decimals and dollar signs ! Exclamations are my own ! I sometimes used the question marks if I thought the spelling or math was goofy.
Nowadays, I’m still conceited enough to NOT engage GOOGLE. (eh — ! : 1nce in a while).
To take another angle on it, there’s “Sweetwater Texas”. It’s partnered with a town in Ohio, but I can’t remember which.
AZERTY
Dvorak fans might also struggle!
Loudon Township, Ohio ?
Not sure, but for some reason they remind me of “repertoire”, “Fadlallah”, and “bbc”.
One of Longest Left-Handed Words Top Row Keyboard, One of Longest Right-Handed Words Middle Row keyboard, Longest Word Bottom Row Keyboard in that order.
Found it: Philo Ohio.
Sir Galahad slept in the perpetuity of the tomb/grave.
bd
I’m almost certain that I’m not in sync but “in-fine-Knight (sic) repose”, seems to do the trick from a non scholastic approach to the problem; or else one might upset the Froggies with ” an unterrupted good knights (sic) sleep”, simply because Sir Galahad (the knight), who was neither good nor hero in their eyes, managed to keep his cool in the heat of battle whilst their non bon vivante heroine contender St. Jeanne D’Arc (the Dame) went and got herself all fired up over some burnt scones, or was that Galahad’s boss, the good King Arthur?…..
Rick A Roberts has beaten me to it by a couple of days, but only just seen it and solved it independently. ‘QWERTY’ style typewriter (remember those) or more typically nowadays a laptop etc. keyboard can generate these words from the first, second and third key rows respectively.
A French keyboard layout is different and unless familiar with ‘QWERTY’, such letter combinations would not lead a French person to think in those terms. Since the words, in addition, are notionally ‘English’ this would further deter them from recognising the randomness of the letters, and lack of any obvious semantic connection. An English speaker, familiar with ‘QWERTY’ might more quickly suppose that the connection is orthographic rather then thematic. At least I did! Thanks Nick. Chris Millington.
qwertyuiop : left hand letters : qwert —right hand letters yuiop were the ‘upper rank” of letters to be used less often than the second rank: asdfg hjkl;
The second rank was the most often used because it oriented the typists’ hands for “touch-typing” and punctuation.
My mother used shorthand notation while preparing to write/typewrite her boss’ notes and papers.
Because I have always been nearly deaf, I could not take dictation. I was fortunate to have some very good bosses. They would tell me what they wanted to say — and I would type their letters and memos. I also checked their math and spelling. (hundreds of thousands of dollars). All those decimals and dollar signs ! Exclamations are my own ! I sometimes used the question marks if I thought the spelling or math was goofy.
Nowadays, I’m still conceited enough to NOT engage GOOGLE. (eh — ! : 1nce in a while).
bd