WolRon, LOL. Read your link. On the QWERTY issue, QWERTY was designed to DELIBERATELY slow people down. Because of physical typewriters having to swing a little metal arm up to make a whack on an inked ribbon to transfer ink (in the shape of the arm's head) to a sheet of paper, some typists, who were really fast, could hit two adjacent keys in such rapid succession, that the armswould physically jam together. So, QWERTY was put together to keep the most common letters (whose metal arms which presumably would swing up almost as one, thereby jamming) as far apart as possible, to minimize the likelihood of jams.
In our technological age of computer word-processing, this is no longer a problem, ever (unless you're Superman or the Flash), but the old keep-em-from-jamming-the-arms-QWERTY standard stays with us to this day. With the Dvorak arrangement, virtually every everyone who types would place their fingers (by habit/training/instinct) unconsciously into the QWERY placement to type, so the changeover may never happen. There are too many QWERTY-trained people for whom there would not be enough motivation for them to change.
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