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A keyboard’s asymmetrical layout may be influencing our feelings toward words. A study by Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research and Kyle Jasmin of University College London argues that the process of typing on QWERTY keyboards is impacting the sentiment of our words, and ultimately, our language as a whole. In the study, Spanish, English, and Dutch speakers were asked to emotionally rate over a thousand words. The results found that participants perceived words with more letters from the right side of the keyboard as more likable than words with the majority of letters from the left side.
The reason for the positive association on the right side is because typing words on that side tends to be easier than typing on the left side, regardless of whether someone is right or left-handed. This is because the left side of the keyboard contains more letters, and more harder-to-type letter pairs.
Our interactions with our devices are subtly changing language in ways we are just beginning to understand.
(via Wired & Data Pointed)
