Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Spelling?
Yes, I would like you to write your blogs (and all other matters that concern you) with correct spelling.
That goes, of course, for me as well. When I add something that is not spelled correctly (of course, you know that it is a "typo"), please let me know!
And that goes for grammar as well!
Let's be the best that we can be!
That goes, of course, for me as well. When I add something that is not spelled correctly (of course, you know that it is a "typo"), please let me know!
And that goes for grammar as well!
Let's be the best that we can be!
Texting
So my daughters have a querty phone. They have an IPhone. Do IPhones have a querty keyboard? I don't know; I don't have one. I would love to have an IPhone but after all the hassle that I just recently had with AT&T, I need to do my yoga, breathe deeply and let it all go before I sign up. But I still want an IPhone!
So here I am left with my little LG phone with a keypad similar to the one way back when my phone number began with "CR".... This dates me, now doesn't it?!?!
I just had an enlightened thought here: why do my daughters rarely make mistakes when they text and invariably, I have to backspace when I have typed a "g" when I meant to type an "h"? I think I have figured it out! Way back when my phone number began with "CR" (it later changed to "FL" - don't ask me why!), we only had to type once for all three letters on the key. So in those days, when I wanted to type an "h", if I had typed a "4", I did not need to go any further. Typing a "4" covered all three - the "g", the "h" and the "i". Aha! Not true with texting!
I would not be at all surprised if there were some well-known researcher who has already studied the latent effects of early telephone use versus the texting of today, but I still get frustrated when I have to backspace while texting. Others go so fast with no backspacing. I go fast...and have to backspace through much of the message!
I guarantee you, my daughters (and many other younger technophiles) have no idea what I am talking about here! My enlightened thoughts are simple, but they may explain something somewhere!
So here I am left with my little LG phone with a keypad similar to the one way back when my phone number began with "CR".... This dates me, now doesn't it?!?!
I just had an enlightened thought here: why do my daughters rarely make mistakes when they text and invariably, I have to backspace when I have typed a "g" when I meant to type an "h"? I think I have figured it out! Way back when my phone number began with "CR" (it later changed to "FL" - don't ask me why!), we only had to type once for all three letters on the key. So in those days, when I wanted to type an "h", if I had typed a "4", I did not need to go any further. Typing a "4" covered all three - the "g", the "h" and the "i". Aha! Not true with texting!
I would not be at all surprised if there were some well-known researcher who has already studied the latent effects of early telephone use versus the texting of today, but I still get frustrated when I have to backspace while texting. Others go so fast with no backspacing. I go fast...and have to backspace through much of the message!
I guarantee you, my daughters (and many other younger technophiles) have no idea what I am talking about here! My enlightened thoughts are simple, but they may explain something somewhere!
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