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It's called a skeuomorph, a vestigial design element that used to be functional but has evolved to be purely decorative. It's why maple syrup still comes in bottles with those weird little round handles.
My favorite example is the QWERTY keyboard being based on typewriters. Just something whimsical about how no matter how much technology advances we will still be using our cyber-typewriters.
Well also it's just a good way of organizing keys for the english language at least, while it may have meant more for type writers where mistakes were permanent it's still good for keeping pace with modern computers and phones.
Qwerty was introduced to slow down typing speed so that skilled typists wouldn't damage the typewriters.
I don't think you can argue it's good design for keeping pace with computers and phones when it literally slows people down compared to layouts like Dvorak.
This! It was made specifically to limit functionality to match mechanical constraints. Nothing about QWERTY is inherently 'good' for English.
Additionally QWERTZ and AZERTY were adapted from QWERTY to perform the same role for other languages - to reduce jamming by slowing down common letter combinations or separating their input across two hands
There's interesting! However, as English is not my mother tongue, I have no idea how to pronounce it even with the phonetics 🤣
English is my mother tongue, and I'm also unclear about how to pronounce it. Skew-oh-morf?
Fun fact: English is one of the only languages where spelling bees are a thing.
I always wonder how spelling bee scenes in shows get translated when dubbed into other languages. Maybe they're turned into some other kind of academic competition?
Anyone have any insight?
It's just still a spelling bee. They'll find some fitting term to call it and that's that. Everyone knows the show is set in a different country anyways. The concept is intuitive enough, even if it'd be very easy in most languages.
It should be pronounced skew-O- morph, Q after an S usually makes a K sound. Pretty sure it's a hold over from Latin, for example Populesque.
The question remains. All underwear had that.
Hypothesis: menswear tends to be more utilitarian, womenswear tends to be more fashionable. A bow would make my cargo pants get caught on shit all the time at work. My girlfriend isn't moving heavy shit all day, and can afford to wear more decorative stuff