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A timely thought
As the days of analog timepieces fade into history, will the directions "Turn clockwise to tighten" soon lose all meaning?
Will the expression persist, complete with scholarly footnotes and diagrams?
What could possibly replace it?
Any youngsters out there who can give a current status report?
And, just for fun, what other words or phrases can you think of that belong to the past but live on in the present? (It's late, and all I can think of right now is "Hold your horses!")
Will the expression persist, complete with scholarly footnotes and diagrams?
What could possibly replace it?
Any youngsters out there who can give a current status report?
And, just for fun, what other words or phrases can you think of that belong to the past but live on in the present? (It's late, and all I can think of right now is "Hold your horses!")
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typing. my kids learn keyboarding, which is.... wrong.
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i'll never learn dvorak now; it's too late for me. but if the whole country decided to teach fourth graders dvorak only? in a generation it would be done.
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And speaking of problems dialing numbers, I remember the first time I used a phone. I was probably about six years old, calling my father to pick me up from a schoolmate's birthday party. I don't remember if I had trouble figuring out which way to turn the dial. I did succeed in dialing my number, though.
And then I picked up the handset. *g*
Oops? Let's try that again. :-D
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I think they called it 'keyboard skills' when my nephew was taking it in school. My typing class had more manual than electric typewriters, so we had to switch around throughout the semester to give everyone a chance at the electrics!