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Post by filpot on Aug 24, 2021 7:50:32 GMT
Hey, my first computer, which I used a lot on BBSs, only had caps. Lowercase was indicated by inverse video. Part of me wishes I understood what any of that meant, but most of me knows that, even if you explained, I still wouldn't get it. (This situation also applies to time signatures in music, which, after 20 years of trying and failing, my husband still hasn't given up trying to explain to me. Bless!)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2021 14:51:34 GMT
LOL at all this talk about typewriters! I think I threw my last one out when I graduated to a computer complete with printer! And I remember Selectric typewriters from when I was at work. Loved those beauties. My very first typewriter was a second hand Remington, bought about 1965 when I had to learn to type after I left school and started working in an office.
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Post by radellaf on Aug 24, 2021 21:24:52 GMT
The relevant bit is that some early computers did not display lowercase, so I am speculating that people who used them for online message boards, for many formative years, may be less likely to notice or mind PEOPLE WHO POST IN ALL CAPS. Bad grammar and lots of !!!!! are what make me scowl. I tell ya, the replies you get when you post some stuff for sale on craigslist...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2021 7:56:18 GMT
Hee hee, people do get mad when they are SHOUTED at by someone using all caps in emails or chat groups!
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Post by allanorn on Aug 25, 2021 14:50:02 GMT
The relevant bit is that some early computers did not display lowercase, so I am speculating that people who used them for online message boards, for many formative years, may be less likely to notice or mind PEOPLE WHO POST IN ALL CAPS. Bad grammar and lots of !!!!! are what make me scowl. I tell ya, the replies you get when you post some stuff for sale on craigslist... Some typewriters were also in all caps. myoldtypewriter.com/2017/02/15/brick-house/Spoiler: they were used as Telegraph typewriters waaaaaaay back when.
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Post by InsomniaQueen on Aug 25, 2021 21:05:56 GMT
The relevant bit is that some early computers did not display lowercase, so I am speculating that people who used them for online message boards, for many formative years, may be less likely to notice or mind PEOPLE WHO POST IN ALL CAPS. Bad grammar and lots of !!!!! are what make me scowl. I tell ya, the replies you get when you post some stuff for sale on craigslist... Hahahaha! I've noticed that sometimes I get a little heavy-handed with the !!!! I think I want to convey positive vibes and a touch of extraversion but don't quite know how to do so without the !!!! I often go back and change most of them to . instead
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Post by radellaf on Aug 26, 2021 15:12:49 GMT
I've noticed that sometimes I get a little heavy-handed with the !!!! I think I want to convey positive vibes and a touch of extraversion Article about that How many exclamation points do you need to seem genuinely enthusiastic? ( source ) I think it's a change of style thing in informal text these days. Seems I see it in places where it's just not warranted to tack on any sort of positivity, or even much emphasis. The latest was an amazon question answered "No they're not!!" when, really "No." would have been better and less callow. I'm enough of a curmudgeon to think that it's just an excuse to not be more creative with how a sentence is worded, but that's unjustified. There's a reason they're used (though I think a pair is plenty?) and emoji are popular. I'm just a linguistic stick-in-the-mud for most new things. Now, using an apostrophe for a plural? That _seems_ new and is completely inexcusable. Just... why? --- As for the teletype typewriters, that brings back 3rd grade memories. Teletypes were already obsolete by then but, hey, public school budgets apparently covered boxes of tractor-feed paper over even a secondhand video terminal. It was definitely all caps. With a paper-tape punch that worked. I'm not sure the tape reader, did, though.
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Post by InsomniaQueen on Aug 26, 2021 19:30:42 GMT
I'm just a linguistic stick-in-the-mud for most new things. I'm that way about "U R" instead of "you are" and other forms of "text speak." I could somewhat excuse it back in the days of T9 - although it still got on my nerves - but there is absolutely no excuse for it now. Drives me nuts.
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Post by InsomniaQueen on Aug 26, 2021 19:41:33 GMT
After reading the article you linked, radellaf, I found that we were discussing two different thought similar things. I'm not a multiple !!! person so much as a ! after almost every sentence person. So, I do generally follow the one ! rule. I have, however, constructed paragraphs where the majority of the sentences ended in ! and felt compelled to go back and change at least half into . So I guess the question should be how many ! in a paragraph to convey enthusiasm...
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Post by InsomniaQueen on Sept 9, 2021 18:54:43 GMT
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Post by sunshine2170 on Sept 9, 2021 19:22:05 GMT
Wow InsomniaQueen that is in good condition. When I was 16.5 I used to work as a Telex Operator, we communicated with our head office in New Zealand. This machine was housed in an air conditioned room the size of a bathroom. I used to sit in it and type away all the messages that needed to be communicated and I got so bored waiting for the tape to complete its communication that I started to read the holes and could read sentences off them and know where I had made a mistake lol
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Post by MKB on Sept 11, 2021 19:26:22 GMT
Very nice machine!
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Post by InsomniaQueen on Sept 12, 2021 1:57:28 GMT
Thanks! I also have a new-to-me 1952 Smith Corona Silent. Even the old dried-out ribbon still works.
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Post by MKB on Sept 13, 2021 3:52:27 GMT
I have a couple. My precious 1938 Corona Sterling:
1950 Smith Corona Sterling:
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Post by penguy on Sept 13, 2021 12:49:10 GMT
MKB the 1938 Corona is beautiful, prefer it to the 1950 model in terms of design. How do they compare in terms of function?
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