How long before ‘clockwise’ and ‘counterclockwise’ become alien concepts? Can we bring back ‘sunwise/deosil’ vs. ‘widdershins’ ?
I wonder if dropping the ‘baby’ off of ‘baby boomer’ let’s people forget where we’re positioned in time. The Depression & the dust bowl were before WWII. The baby boom happened when the GIs came home after WWII.
When my kids’ high school changed the name of the class, they were up front about why. It was done to keep boys from avoiding taking a girl’s class.
I’m guessing it’s a high percentage among elder Millennials (born c. 1980-84), since touch typing was still being taught in elementary and middle schools well into the mid-90s.
My TYPING class in high school has served me very well. That and drafting and math has provided me with very lucrative employment.
Like another poster above, I was a draftsman for quite a few years. Every thing was upper case hand printed. Until we went to Leroy lettering. Also print of course.
Does that entry show up about once a month (not necessarily precisely so?) She may have been tired due to her menstrual cycle, but might not have wanted to written that down more clearly.
Good point! We’ll have to look at the journals again to see if there’s a periodic element. (heh!)
Oof. Wanted to write, of course.
My high school, mid 80s, required typing class for both girls and boys in or before 10th grade.
A keyboard.
How quaint.
And when was the last time you really actually dialed a phone? Yet we still say “dialed” and may well for another century. “Clockwise” and “counter/anticlockwise” will outlive analog timepieces by centuries.
Over the years, I’ve signed so many charts that my signature has devolved from reasonably legible to pure chicken scratch—no actual letters in sight.
I never once saw my father write in cursive, but his printing was the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. My printing, on the other hand, has eroded into near-illegibility (possibly because I switched to the other hand). At least my typing still looks respectable—so long as no one asks me to handwrite “typing.”
but you have to actively Google to know. Do people randomly Google, like browsing through an encyclopedia?
Com-PUT-or!
As words, sure. As quickly understood concepts, maybe not so much. “When I said ‘righty-tightly’ I meant turn it clockwise….snap….”
As God is my witness, I’ve trained guys who interpreted “righty-tightly/lefty-loosey” to mean use their right vs left hand.
One odd thing I do when handwriting is that I tend to duplicate my most common typo for the word I’m writing.
When I was in Grade 9, picking electives for Grade 10, (yay! I’m growing up!) our home room teacher said that everyone should take typing. She followed that up with “and when I say “everyone” I mean boys as well as girls!”
Thanks, Mrs Maguire! One of the best bits of counselling I got.
Not sure to what task they were applying the advice.
Opening and closing valves. No different from faucets
I vaguely remember being offered a typing class in high school in the 80s, but I didn’t take it, and I’m very glad I didn’t. I think it would have been a humongous waste of time. I’ve been typing all my life, so I know where the letters are; I didn’t need a class to teach me how to press the keys.
I have no idea how fast I can type, but since it’s not significantly slower than I can think, it’s not a limitation. Almost all the typing I do is what comes out of my head, not typing what I or someone else had already written. That skill became semi-obsolete when we ditched typewriters for word processors where we could edit as we typed, and becomes more obsolete the better scanning and OCR technology becomes.
On the other hand, I’m not particularly fast at thumb-typing on a cellphone keyboard. Do they have classes for that?