I just wanted to thank everyone for highjacking my thread with a major boring topic LOL :D

A typewriter:

think of it as a really boring cumputer lacking anything but a keyboard.



OR, and genius device that connects keyboard to priner, removing the need for a computer and software!

Well I guess that makes sense for typewriters but why aren't there 2 different layouts of computer keyboards available? I know I'd prefer alphabetical.




And urge, it's not that they don't teach spelling, grammar & math in school any more (I only graduated 8 years ago) , it's that they teach those things but they don't really care if anyone actually learns it or not. The public schools are so overcrowded that teachers willingly pass students who have no business being passed simply to usher the problem on to someone else. And the teaching of calculators in place of paper math is why it can take 5 minutes to get your change at the grocery store or fast food place. For example, I went through the Burger King drive-thru the other day and my total was 6.21 . I gave the stupid kid working a $10, a $1 and .21 cents change. He looked at me like I was crazy and then said "No, it's only 6.21, the ten is enough." No shit Sherlock, but I want a $5 back was the gist of my reply, to which he put on the MOST perplexed face I've seen in years and then said "Well I already put $10 in here (computer/cash register) and it won't let me change it." WHAT?!?!? Essentially he could not figure on his own that the 3.79 change it was telling him to give me back, plus the 1.21 I was trying to hand him equaled $5. I tried to explain this to him for at least a full minute and finally got frustrated to the point that I just said 'Screw it, give me my change & my food."

Yeah, against all odds they´ve managed to make it even more boring.:rolleyes:

kids ... this guy right here is proof positive that you need to LAY OFF THE DRUGS AND STAY IN SCHOOL !!

hahahahahahah

cumputer !!

i guess thats a computer owned by a porn addict ? :)

Yeah right! Spelling discussion, keyboard origin, calculator math vs. paper math.... This is an extremely stimulating conversation!

what boggles my mind is that these same illiterate kids are getting on computers ... an opportunity to become literate and yet its so prevalent that all it does is reinforce illiteract by allowing for this rediculous txtspeak - or people getting pissed off when you try to help them out.

it all ties together, though....

Back in the day, chatrooms consisted of people using typewriters or "pen and paper" for the truly archaic. They would use these instruments to put words onpaper, then seal it in an envelope and people called "mail men" would then deliver the "letter" into a vast service that would distribute said letters to the destination specified on the envelope.

it took a long time, and the "mail men" were prone to acts of violence, so they invented computers to make chatrooms quicker and easier.

Is that what you teach your kid at home, Vod?

Poor guy. I can see his future already.