The 'tap' key. Hasn't the time come?

[Splintert]

Propose it to a keyboard manufacturer. I have a hard time figuring out where they'd put it, though.

 

[Goker]

I think I can program my X7 to type out "t-h-e" in that order with one button. And so I shall.

Also I find the lack of humour in here disturbing...

P.S: Removed my earlier post, I don't want some ''cool forum kids'' taking it seriously and start a war with me over it.

I think people need to get to know you before they can understand which of your posts are meant to be serious and which are simply made for humour.

 

[Bluehawk]

You can expect to see a lot of tweets and Facebook posts with "I'd ћ that" jokes if it ever gets implemented and called "the tap key".

You could just use "y", like they did in the old days. For example: "Ye Olde Rubber-Chicken-With-A-Pulley-In-The-Middle Shoppe", where "ye" is actually "the". Of course, yat might take some getting used to, I yink.

Ðat's actually meant to be a þorn, which was a single letter pronounced like "th", or at least one form of "th", ðere are two ways to pronounce that digraph in English. Voiced and voiceless dental fricatives.

 

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Heȝ, tƿo of those are eths!

Anyway, I say we bring back all the letters that damned printing press destroyed. Thorn, eth, yogh, wynn, the lot.

 

[Kissaki]

Thanks, but I'd rather not. In fact, I challenge you all to a... challenge! You are to go one month on this forum without using 'the' in any post you make.

Gogogo!

Can one use suffixes instead?

 

[Devercia]

Heȝ, tƿo of those are eths!

Anyway, I say we bring back all the letters that damned printing press destroyed. Thorn, eth, yogh, wynn, the lot.

This. Gutenberg ruined English's expression of the Roman alphabet.

 

[Moose!]

Thanks, but I'd rather not. In fact, I challenge you all to a... challenge! You are to go one month on this forum without using 'the' in any post you make.

Gogogo!

I heartily agree! In fact, I propose a death-match. Bring your itsy bitsy teeny weeny wrestling shorts to the mud-pool at dawn.

You sicken me.