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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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

NP. Where is the Ctrl key on a typewriter? How about Alt or function keys? How do you copy and paste on a typewriter? Undo? [/quote]

The letter placement is the exact same.  All the keys of a typewriter are on a computer keyboard but not all the keys of a keyboard are on a typewriter.

And the PP is correct - way back in the 1950’s touch-typing book my grandmother gave me, the instructions were to “put your hands on the keyboard as illustrated”. [/quote]

Not quite. On my first typewriter I didn't have different keys for 1/l and 0/O. So there were a few minor differences outside of multiple shift keys. I still say O when I read 0 but otherwise don't confuse them.[/quote]

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