# The Letter "|\\|"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 19, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795 "2001-01-19T02:35:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/1 "2001-01-19T02:35:48Z")
The letter i the title of the thread does ot work o my keyboard. It is really, really aoyig me. I eed to go out soo ad get a ew keyboard, so my threads will make sese. Please take pity o me. I must log off ow ad ot respod to ay more threads, because it will just make me look like a idiot because all the words will look wrog. Dam it. This sucks. I wat a ew keyboard!!!
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/2 "2001-01-19T02:51:16Z")
Bwahahaha… Sorry to laugh at your pain. But, that was a trully hilarious rant. Fuckin’ a dude.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/3 "2001-01-19T02:58:43Z")
Dude, all you need to do is find a place on your screen where there’s an “n” and copy it. Then when you want to use it, just paste.
I would hazard a guess that this N problem is the reason you didn’t post to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=56222)?
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### Author:  [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/4 "2001-01-19T03:19:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by iampunha \*
> \*\*Dude, all you need to do is find a place on your screen where there’s an “n” and copy it. Then when you want to use it, just paste.
> \*\*
That’s true, but I still eed to buy a ew keyboard. Besides, this thread would’t be as fuy if it had the “||” i it.
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/5 "2001-01-19T03:30:44Z")
o kiddig! Who wats to sit aroud pastig every letter (betwee m ad o) wheever you eed to type somethig?
(Hmmmm, kid of a “my ose is broke” look, hey?)
Thaks for a good laugh, Superova! ow go get a ew keyboard before you lose ay more letters.
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### Author:  [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/6 "2001-01-19T05:08:40Z")
I actually had to do the cut and paste thing once. After a few minutes it got to where hitting Control-V was about as quick as hitting J.
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/7 "2001-01-19T05:46:36Z")
Bet you’re happy now that you don’t have to type in your username to post!
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### Author:  [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/8 "2001-01-19T14:17:20Z")
ou hink ou have i bad. i’m missing wo leers plus i can’ capaalize. one sinking drop of coke caused me all his grief. new ke board on he wa hough, hurr up dell. i akes abou 20 minues o cu and pase a small pos. no worh i.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/9 "2001-01-19T14:26:01Z")
::hands SuperNova box of tissues for his terrible sinus infection::
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/10 "2001-01-19T15:23:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \*
> Thaks for a good laugh, **Superova!**
Is that where SuperBabies come from?
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/11 "2001-01-19T18:38:55Z")
The rant has been brought to you by the letters “P” and “O” and the number “6”.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/12 "2001-01-19T21:00:57Z")
No N’s? Never! Neophyte needs new N notator now!
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/13 "2001-01-19T23:01:30Z")
Oh, **Superova** , I am very unkid perso. for laughig at your misfortue. So very sorry - I would happily sed you a spare workig keyboard, but the distace is too great. I really hope you ca get a ew oe before too log.
How sad that even “schadenfreude” contains the dread letter “N”.
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### Author:  [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/14 "2001-01-20T04:55:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Celyn \*
> \*\*Oh, **Superova** , I am very unkid perso. for laughig at your misfortue. So very sorry - I would happily sed you a spare workig keyboard, but the distace is too great. I really hope you ca get a ew oe before too log.
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> How sad that even “schadenfreude” contains the dread letter “N”. \*\*
You blew it. Look at the sixth word. Ukid. You forgot to take out oe of the ||'s.
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/15 "2001-01-20T14:56:01Z")
Dam! Very fuckig stupid! But this meas I am gettig told off for OT makig typig mistakes. A icely ovel experiece. Maybe I did it o purpose to give you somethig to laugh at? O, I did’t thik that would work. It is actually quite difficult, you kow. Ah, you do’t kow, of course. Sorry!
Ayway, it was a daft thig to do - a bit like temptig fate, I fear.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/16 "2001-01-20T15:04:46Z")
Two suggestions:
1. Use the numeric keypad and the “Alt” key to type the ASCII code for the “N”. Then, if you have a programmable keyboard, program this as a key macro, and hit that key instead of “N”. True, you will need two keys - one for “N”, and one for “n”.
2. Write your post in Word, and let the spell checker fix 90% of your missing "n"s.
3. Buy that $15 new keyboard!
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/17 "2001-01-20T15:35:11Z")
But Athracite (or may I call you Ua?), Superova has already mailordered a ew keyboard. It is o its way. I bet he is waitig impatietly every day for the mailma to arrive.
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### Author:  [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/18 "2001-01-20T16:14:54Z")
I thik it is possible to get a program which will simulate the keyboard with the mouse so you ca click o the letter that you wish to type. That should bypass the 'I\I problem!
Ayoe else kow aythig about this?
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/19 "2001-01-20T16:44:25Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Green Bean \*
> \*\*But Athracite (or may I call you Ua?), Superova has already mailordered a ew keyboard. It is o its way. I bet he is waitig impatietly every day for the mailma to arrive. \*\*
🙂 Well, I meat util the…
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### Author:  [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter/50795/20 "2001-01-20T22:51:15Z")
I go a new keyboard! Finally! Wonderful NNNNN’s… wai a second. Somehing is wrong. No. hat’s not righ! Shi!
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