I'm implicated in a divorce for proposing a menage-a-trois to a wife...

[Colonâ„¢]

It's not even correct in the thread title. The spelling is "ménage à trois".

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
It's not even correct in the thread title. The spelling is "ménage à trois".

A minor seismic tremour caused the accents to fall down and become hyphens.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Give her some ecstasy.

Just make sure you don't take any, or you may find out that you've been making out with her brother all night.

[Zoid]

I don´t think giving her ecstasy is such a good idea since she´s 8 months pregnant

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
It's not even correct in the thread title. The spelling is "ménage à trois".

I have an English keyboard...do you seriously think I am going to go to the hassle of pulling up the character map and finding those characters?

[Provost Harrison]

...and yes, I used to do one hell of a lot of swimming and was thin, and it was exactly as Dis said, it made no difference whatsoever to you know what. But I am not really doing it for narcissistic reasons anyway...

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun


And I actually do stuff there, to point of wheezing and near loss of consciousness...

Exercise, I hope.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I have an English keyboard...do you seriously think I am going to go to the hassle of pulling up the character map and finding those characters?

IIRC, you do have the accents on the UK keyboard. You just have to push the "accent" key before pushing the "e". It's no more hassle than writing hyphens where there shouldn't be

[SlowwHand]

I think Homewrecker Harrison has a sort of panache about it.

All this time, he talks about no women. HA! Lies.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Spiffor

IIRC, you do have the accents on the UK keyboard. You just have to push the "accent" key before pushing the "e". It's no more hassle than writing hyphens where there shouldn't be

my roomate has one of those french keyboards (well, he is french..)

he uses american ones for programming, says that all the needed stuff isn't easily accessible with the french ones.

JM

[SlowwHand]

Only thing about French keyboards is you have to constantly look for them

[Dis]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I think Homewrecker Harrison has a sort of panache about it.

All this time, he talks about no women. HA! Lies.

yeah it's all an act. He's a major playa.

I am too in case you guys fell for my act. I have women falling all over themselves for me.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
he uses american ones for programming, says that all the needed stuff isn't easily accessible with the french ones.

Indeed. French keyboards mostly mirror old French typewriters, backs when you didn't need so many brackets and other programming symbols.
Since programming was first developed in the US, programmers used symbols that were easily typeable on their keyboard.

OTOH, the French keyboard is vastly superior to type French (duh), because the characters specific to the language are readily available. The French keyboard is also useable to occasionnaly write in some other languages, because it allows to build special characters (ñ, ü and the like), but their foreign equivalent are better to that effect. At least, I switched to a German keyboard back when I wrote my dissertation.

My programming friends use the UK keyboard, because the layout is as convenient as the US one for programming purposes, but also because it allows for a fairly easy access to French special characters, except the most absurd one (ç)

[Elok]

Originally posted by Dis
I am too in case you guys fell for my act. I have women falling all over themselves for me.

Translation: "Chicks regularly feign death to avoid having to turn him down for a date."

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Indeed. French keyboards mostly mirror old French typewriters, backs when you didn't need so many brackets and other programming symbols.
Since programming was first developed in the US, programmers used symbols that were easily typeable on their keyboard.

OTOH, the French keyboard is vastly superior to type French (duh), because the characters specific to the language are readily available. The French keyboard is also useable to occasionnaly write in some other languages, because it allows to build special characters (ñ, ü and the like), but their foreign equivalent are better to that effect. At least, I switched to a German keyboard back when I wrote my dissertation.

My programming friends use the UK keyboard, because the layout is as convenient as the US one for programming purposes, but also because it allows for a fairly easy access to French special characters, except the most absurd one (ç)

One of English's few redeeming features is that it uses hardly any special characters, so you can type it easily on most breeds of keyboards.

Now, if the Swedish keyboard had easy access to eszett and c-cedilla, it would be perfect.