# Why isn't punctuation also assigned to the keypad?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-punctuation-also-assigned-to-the-keypad/600641>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 24, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-punctuation-also-assigned-to-the-keypad/600641 "2011-10-24T16:42:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-punctuation-also-assigned-to-the-keypad/600641/21 "2011-10-25T00:41:42Z")

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> [@Crazyhorse](#):
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> What the world needs is a one-button keyboard: the “DWIM” key: Do What I Mean. 🙂  
> If Steve Jobs could have lived another 20 years, who knows?

Just wait for the [singularity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity). Then your computer will be able to tell you what you would have meant if you’d had enough time to think of it, and it will have already done it for you. 🙂

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**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-punctuation-also-assigned-to-the-keypad/600641/22 "2011-10-25T06:43:37Z")

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> [@Crazyhorse](#):
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> What the world needs is a one-button keyboard: the “DWIM” key: Do What I Mean. 🙂  
> If Steve Jobs could have lived another 20 years, who knows?

This would definitely solve the spelling problem. . . .

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