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Posted By: Bill S. QWERTY effect creates sexy words - 03/11/12 03:36 AM
Interesting, but are people really paid to do this sort of research at university level?
Posted By: Ellis Re: QWERTY effect creates sexy words - 03/11/12 10:58 PM
Of course they are, and there should be LOTS more of it!

This is totally ridiculous, and made me, for a day or so, totally fixated on the whereabouts of the letters I was typing! I, honestly, as a very slow inaccurate typist, could not see the truth of the proposition, however there are definitely more words using a majority of right-handed letters and most of them not very sexy! Maybe that was my fault!

My extremely left-handed since birth daughter informs me she has known for years that most typing is done by the right hand! She says society is rightist anyway!

To get back to the legitimacy of this research. Perhaps they are angling for an Ignoble Prize!!!
Posted By: Bill S. Re: QWERTY effect creates sexy words - 03/11/12 11:51 PM
Did you know that a few years ago there was an attempt made to have the words “…sitteth at the right hand of the Father” removed from the Nicene Creed, in case they offended left-handed people?
I think that would have deserved an Ignoble Prize if it had been successful.
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