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Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: WhiteRice on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:16:16

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Key position switch / 87 keys Cherry MX "tea-axis" (ergonomic confirmed influenza)

I see tea-axis mentioned a lot. Is this referring to blue or brown.

My first instinct is brown because well, tea is brown.

For this product,
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=5730542696

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: Co-Op on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:17:25

Unless they meant T-axis. ;)

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: NewbieOneKenobi on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:20:15

Could you provide me with the original sentence please?

And yes, tea in German is Tee but I'm not sure what you call the letter "t" in that language.

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:20:34

It means "brown."  I think the original word means both; kinda like "orange" in English.

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: Co-Op on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:20:37

Looking at the model numbers on http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=special&filter=spacesaver it looks like Cherry Browns.

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: WhiteRice on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:24:56

Quote from: NewbieOneKenobi;227241

Could you provide me with the original sentence please?

And yes, tea in German is Tee but I'm not sure what you call the letter "t" in that language.

键位开关 / 87 键 Cherry MX "茶轴" (人体工学确认感)

Thanks guys!

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: maxlugar on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:25:48

Tea is technically black, green, or white.  Perhaps it is a reference to linear Cherry Blacks?  :)

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: NewbieOneKenobi on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:31:20

There's yellow also, albeit rare (Japanese ceremonial tea).

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: WhiteRice on Mon, 27 September 2010, 10:33:14

There are listings for keyboards with black shaft's, which I infer to be cherry blacks.

Title: Looking for some help determining google translation.
Post by: kip69 on Fri, 01 October 2010, 09:40:52

Tea colour of black tea in Chines is red: Hong Cha.  So actual colour of tea wont help.  And there are differences in local terms and in mainland vs Taiwan terms.  Also simplified Chinese has thrown a whole new spanner in the works.  But...

That phrase is what came up in searches when we looked for Taiwan sources of keyboards with brown switches, such as my I-rocks 6230 and the ducky 1087.  I am 97% sure its brown switch.