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My friend just said that SHE can't touch-type. Hah. She look-types, which is probably far more effective than smell-typing, which is rather an ugly affair, and involves painting various substances over the keyboard so as to distinguish one from another via their scent. The trouble is that people avoid using the letter Y because of the somewhat unfortunate smell that was assigned to it, years before anyone really gave the matter any thought. However, like QWERTY, the convention has become institutionalised, and kids in schools who are learning to smell-type get confused when people introduce more pleasantly scented, less conventional modern suggestions of keyboard.