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What's up with all of the bad grammar?

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mikephillips said:
I am a self taught typist. Like so many in high school it was reserved for those hoping for secretarial work and 99% young girls. …….
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That’s what convinced me to take typing ;)
 
Basil said:
I wish I had had some formal typing as a kid or in college. Over the years I’ve tried to teach myself but with marginal success.
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In the mid 80's, I realized I could no longer remain computer illiterate, I took an adult typing Greg System Class.
My skills were less than hunt and peck, first I look at the material I was copying.
Then I had to find the key I wanted then look at the screen to check it, then look back at the material I was copying.
Dropped out after two lessons and bought a "Mavis Beacon" disc.
I think I topped out at 30 WPM and was happy.
 
I consider the typing class I took in high school one of the most valuable I had. For someone who is penmanship otherly abled like myself it has been a constant gift, allowing me to type my own papers in college and law school, banging out stories on an old Remington as a reporter, working as a "secretary" for a law librarian. Heck, I was even a "Kelly Girl" for a summer. And as a lawyer, I would have been up a creek if I couldn't type my own briefs. Now if I only had the foresight to take that welding class in high school
 
My Army MOS (military occupational specialty)...Clerk/Typist. The Army knows how to train a soldier to type.
 
mikephillips said:
it was reserved for those hoping for secretarial work and 99% young girls.
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Mayhaps an origin of the term "type casting"? I'll be here all week, try the veal, tip your servers! :smile:
 
May be an image of text that says 'NOWTHAT NOW THAT APRIL FOOLS' DAY IS OVER EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET IS TRUE AGAIN!'
 
Before my Freshman year of high school, my mother made my go to summer school to learn typing. As with most schools of the time, us college guys couldn't take typing, shop, drafting. My friend who went to advanced digree in oceanography had to get special permission to take shop classes; building a boat seemed to be appropriate for his future major. In junior high the boys, only boys, had wood shop, metal shop, drafting and electrical shop. Girls only had sewing and cooking, baking. Now, with the emphasis on STEM someo of thoswe things have gone away.
 
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