Keyboards Are Influencing What You Name Your Baby

[yoobe]

Guys,


Funny article to read for keyboard geeks we are


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


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


Have a good week end

[katushkin]

That's just silly.

BRB, gotta go and pick up Keycool from his grandmother's house.

[derezzed]

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.

[tp4tissue]

ok..... i guess that works..

Doesn't mean I'm not gonna name my kid   001

[noisyturtle]

I think Soda is a beautiful name.

[yomammary]

Naming my next kid Topre.

[fknraiden]

brb, naming kid Lolita

[hwood34]

brb, naming kid Lolita

oh god why

[tp4tissue]

brb, naming kid Lolita

oh god why

the keyboard duh

[noisyturtle]

"And here's a picture of our beautiful baby boy Royal Kludge."

[Halverson]

"And here's a picture of our beautiful baby boy Royal Kludge."

The first of his name, Kludge

[njbair]

Nothing new. There's that singer Olivetti Newton John, and more recently, the girl who sings Someone Like You, is named A Dell.