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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are you, OP? I took keyboarding in the ninth grade back in '96. [/quote] Not OP, but I took typing on a typewriter in 9th grade in 1982.[/quote] My first job re-entering the work force at 55 required a "typing speed" of 70 wpm. As for language, I understand about language evolving, none of us speak Proto-Indo-European. I like how human history is woven into our language--but yes, I feel annoyed by how it changes in our own time. Makes me wonder how modes of communication have affected language: when printed books appeared, was that gradually reflected in how people spoke somehow? My dad used to talk about how radio and TV made regional accents less obvious than before those were in common use. Now we are deluged with awful corporate language plus what gets spread via online media. [/quote]
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