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Title: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: yoobe on Sat, 26 September 2015, 11:27:51: Guys,

Funny article to read for keyboard geeks we are :P

http://time.com/94945/keyboards-baby-names/

full paper: https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2014/papers/061/paper061.pdf

Have a good week end :)
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: katushkin on Sat, 26 September 2015, 11:58:13: That's just silly.

BRB, gotta go and pick up Keycool from his grandmother's house.
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: derezzed on Sat, 26 September 2015, 12:13:28: It's the same principle as the Sapir Whorf hypothesis; that language influences thought. The idea that the devices we use to use language can also influence our thought is very intriguing because it incorporates the physiology of the human hand into the process. It makes me wonder how strongly the Sapir Whorf hypothesis can be applied to users of sign language.
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 27 September 2015, 17:42:31: ok..... i guess that works..

Doesn't mean I'm not gonna name my kid 001
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: noisyturtle on Sun, 27 September 2015, 17:57:04: I think Soda is a beautiful name.
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: yomammary on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:08:14: Naming my next kid Topre.
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: fknraiden on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:29:09: brb, naming kid Lolita
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: hwood34 on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:29:36: Quote from: fknraiden on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:29:09
brb, naming kid Lolita

oh god why
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:34:01: Quote from: hwood34 on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:29:36
Quote from: fknraiden on Sun, 27 September 2015, 18:29:09
brb, naming kid Lolita

oh god why

the keyboard duh
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: noisyturtle on Sun, 27 September 2015, 19:12:13: "And here's a picture of our beautiful baby boy Royal Kludge."
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: Halverson on Sun, 27 September 2015, 19:35:03: Quote from: noisyturtle on Sun, 27 September 2015, 19:12:13
"And here's a picture of our beautiful baby boy Royal Kludge."

The first of his name, Kludge
Title: Re: Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby
Post by: njbair on Sun, 27 September 2015, 19:59:52: Nothing new. There's that singer Olivetti Newton John, and more recently, the girl who sings Someone Like You, is named A Dell.