> And I think that's the experience for a lot of people who live in a foreign country, or still have friends from other countries. Languages get mixed all the time.
It is a terrible design flaw, that is primarily due to the fact that a lot of software designers assume that the average person speaks one language; in fact there are more multilingual people than monolingual people in the world (cf first paragraph of [0]).
Ideally, software keyboards would be designed to take that fact into account - a few smart things could be done! But no, a lot of software is designed by upper middle class westerners which tend to only speak a single language, and the designs we have are victims of their creators' biases.
In the meantime, I have 5 different keyboards on my iPhone, and I find texting extremely painful.
It is a terrible design flaw, that is primarily due to the fact that a lot of software designers assume that the average person speaks one language; in fact there are more multilingual people than monolingual people in the world (cf first paragraph of [0]).
Ideally, software keyboards would be designed to take that fact into account - a few smart things could be done! But no, a lot of software is designed by upper middle class westerners which tend to only speak a single language, and the designs we have are victims of their creators' biases.
In the meantime, I have 5 different keyboards on my iPhone, and I find texting extremely painful.
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism