Do you use capitalization and punctuation in IMs?

weatherlover427 · #21 Postby **weatherlover427** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:21 pm

I'm a hunter and pecker. I cheated in keyboarding throughout the whole class :o , so I never learned how to type "the right way" ... it helped me get a 101% though, which earned me a free dinner at Chili's (a burger place).

Skywatch_NC · #22 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:25 pm

Joshua19Young wrote:I'm a hunter and pecker. I cheated in keyboarding throughout the whole class :o , so I never learned how to type "the right way" ... it helped me get a 101% though, which earned me a free dinner at Chili's (a burger place).

Rewarded for cheating in class? Hehe :wink:

Sure wish I had a teacher like that during my school years!

StormCrazyIowan · #23 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:27 pm

It depends. If I am in games, I usually don't. Anywhere else I really try to though becuase it bugs me when I don't! :lol:

JQ Public · #24 Postby **JQ Public** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:06 pm

i try to

ColdFront77 · #25 Postby **ColdFront77** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:31 pm

I see this has turned out to be an interesting subject to most of you. Thank you very much. 8)

Mary, I am glad that you appreciate me using home row.

I learned how to type my freshman year in high school [the 1992-1993 school year], my teacher's son died of liver cancer during the course of the year (pretty early in the season), so we had a substitute from the business department take his place, she was alright, being able to teach the class, but something was missing and I don't believe she was truly a typing teacher at the high school.

JQ Public · #26 Postby **JQ Public** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:40 pm

I learned typing in first grade i believe. We were playing comp games all the time in class to help us learn math and reading

ColdFront77 · #27 Postby **ColdFront77** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:52 pm

I had an idea on how to type before I turned 15, but of course improved from taking Typing in high school.

WidreMann · #28 Postby **WidreMann** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:51 pm

I never learned typing the "official way" (i.e. in a class), but instead started out with hunt and peg and kept adding fingers until I now, when I can type very quickly. It still doesn't match what my ex-math teacher can do (who is also a programmer). It's just amazing how fast his fingers can move - almost eerie.

As for capitalization and all that jazz, I'm your guy. And it's not like I have to put in any extra effort. For me, a capital A takes the same effort as a lower case A (shift+A is one operation in my mind). I've also gotten more efficient since in Microsoft Word I have hotkeys set up for letters with diacritics, which often requires three or four keys to be pressed in order, such as ctrl+:+a for ä and ctrl+alt+~+a for ã (a with tilde if you can't see it too well). I do a lot of stuff with language (including my own constructed language) which require all these symbols and a well structured system for hotkeys.

#29 Postby **wx247** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:54 pm

i lurned the same way widre and i alwayz try to use correct pronounseeashun whenever i can because i am just that way i am glad to c yall are 2

:lol:

ColdFront77 · #30 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 2:57 am

Hello WidreMann!

Very nice to see you here at Storm2K. I am glad you stopped by and hope you are here more frequently. I am sorry, I haven't been to your messageboard. There is so much activity here that it takes a lot of time reading, scanning, responding and creating topics here along with the other things I and I am sure most of our friends here do online.

I agree wholeheartedly, it takes the same amount of effort to use the proverbial shift key. I don't think it take even a half second to press it down and press the first letter in your sentence.

I can type very fast, perhaps you can notice in the short time it takes me to post here.

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