Sir, – Following Frank McNally’s musings on European keyboards (An Irishman’s Diary, May 23rd), current thinking would direct Greek typists’ search for the euro to the Escape key! – Yours, etc,
Sir, – Frank McNally’s revelation (An Irishman’s Diary, May 23rd) that Friedrich Nietzsche used a Danish rather than German typewriter as his sight began to fail may explain why the Prussian philologist went mad.
Blearily tapping out 600 pages of The Will to Power on a keyboard cluttered with irrelevant symbols (Å/å, Æ/æ and Ø/ø) but lacking the essential German scharfes S (ß) ligature would drive anyone insane. – Yours, etc,