The English language is getting dumber

[Anonymous]

Okay, so I'm trying to figure out what this class is about. It mentions "keyboarding". Is that new age lingo for typing? Keyboard used to be a noun. It seems like people are trying to make things sound smarter, but it just sounds dumber to me using a noun as a verb, and adds unnecessary confusion. Keyboarding could mean using a piano keyboard or using a computer keyboard. Why can't people just use the proper language? What is wrong with the word typing? Is it that no one knows how to type anymore because they only text in short sentences? Vent over.

[Anonymous]

Keyboarding has been used instead of typing as as a class since at least 1998. I was a sub for two days in a MS class called keyboarding. It was essentially the same as typing class when I took it in HS. Just no correction tape

[Anonymous]

Yes, American English is absolutely getting “dumber” every day. Common usage puts the misused word in the dictionary and then we’re done. We’re losing key distinctions by accepting misuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, American English is absolutely getting “dumber” every day. Common usage puts the misused word in the dictionary and then we’re done. We’re losing key distinctions by accepting misuse.

Or languages always evolve. Ask a linguist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, American English is absolutely getting “dumber” every day. Common usage puts the misused word in the dictionary and then we’re done. We’re losing key distinctions by accepting misuse.

Or languages always evolve. Ask a linguist.

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/english-changing

[Anonymous]

Keyboarding simply refers to a computer keyboard vs typewriter keys. It's a different skill, although similar. Learning touch typing is the focus of both.

Lots of nouns are now also used as verbs:

Parenting
Googling
Emailing
texting
Ubering

It's actually called "verbing" when it happens.

[Anonymous]

I think the change makes more sense. To me, Typing is a verb. It represented hitting the keys on the typewriter. Keyboarding is a noun and is more inclusive of eboverything kesrned today - turning on the computer, using the mouse, opening the program, etc.

Not exactly parallel, but...... When you draw, you create a drawing. When you type on a keyboard, you have learned keyboarding. Tpwhen you workout, you completed training.

[Anonymous]

That's your example of the dumbing down of the English language.....

[Anonymous]

This makes perfect sense because the skill is most useful on a keyboard rather than a typewriter. It was typing when people used typewriters, now it’s keyboarding for keyboards. Language changes, it’s not a sign of being dumbed down, but exemplifies how language adapts to be most useful to the people communicating with it.

[Anonymous]

Typing is done on a typewriter. Keyboarding is done on a keyboard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keyboarding has been used instead of typing as as a class since at least 1998. I was a sub for two days in a MS class called keyboarding. It was essentially the same as typing class when I took it in HS. Just no correction tape

+1

I was taught "keyboarding" in elementary school. The year was probably 1999 or so. W-school pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, American English is absolutely getting “dumber” every day. Common usage puts the misused word in the dictionary and then we’re done. We’re losing key distinctions by accepting misuse.

Or languages always evolve. Ask a linguist.

Of course languages evolve to include more words and terms, not they laziness and misuse. Take nauseous/nauseated. We lost nauseated and use nauseous for both something that will make you feel like vomiting and feeling like vomiting. Why? Laziness. And don’t get me started on turning every noun into a verb!

We’re losing language precision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Typing is done on a typewriter. Keyboarding is done on a keyboard.

First, the keys of a typewriter are a keyboard. And what is the verb for typing on your phone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes perfect sense because the skill is most useful on a keyboard rather than a typewriter. It was typing when people used typewriters, now it’s keyboarding for keyboards. Language changes, it’s not a sign of being dumbed down, but exemplifies how language adapts to be most useful to the people communicating with it.

Do you know that the keyboard of a typewriter is identical to the keyboard on a computer? And where the keys are located on a typewriter has always been called a keyboard.

[Anonymous]

I think it is cringeworthy when you join an organization these days and get “onboarded.”