Comments on: Spellchecking And The Rise Of Feminism

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:50:43 +0000

@Bob Brague: See! Could have been me! I was very angry at the time and, to be honest, still am. I don’t know what it’s like in Georgia – or what it was like back then – but over here you were supposed to have a choice! Ggggrrhhhh!

By: Bob Brague

Bob Brague — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:07:57 +0000

I have been blogging for only ten months now, so I am a babe in the woods, as it were, in cyberspace. And I don't know whether real (by real I mean longtime) bloggers would consider my blogging to be blogging, but, hey, I do what I do and they can do what they do, and no one will get hurt. This is my American brashness coming to the fore. I'm 67, male, and a first-time visitor to your blog. I completely identify with this particular post. Several boys had taken typing class before me at my school (Warning! Warning! Boasting Ahead: I can type 125 words per minute) but I was the first boy in the history of the school to take shorthand class. I was immediately suspected by the football players of wearing pink satin panties (which, by the way, was untrue). The year was 1957 and we studied something called Gregg Diamond Jubilee. In 1958 I was named the valedictorian of my class. That year Tommy Curb was the second boy in the history of our school to learn shorthand, and in 1959 he was named valedictorian of his class. Do I detect a pattern here? Mais oui, mon ami! Shorthand came in very handy at university in the days before cassette tape recorders. I too became a computer programmer but later had a career as a technical writer. I like very much what I've read so far on your blog. I plan to return frequently. I live near Atlanta, Georgia, by the way, in case you were wondering. Bob Bragues last blog post..Lest we forget

By: Jeni

Jeni — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:06:41 +0000

LOL . Yes my P.E. teacher Miss Trench in her wrap-round gym skirt still never convinced me she was female.

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:52:33 +0000

@Jeni: said: ‘Sexist imbeciles those curriculum planners back then.’
Even the women as I recall. Although I had my doubts about a few of them.

By: Jeni

Jeni — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:58:41 +0000

Sexist imbeciles those curriculum planners back then.
Although I wasn’t allowed to take the ’secretarial skills’ course because I achieved too higher level in other subjects and thus was forced to do only subjects that were considered academic. The fact that my only real interests were English and Art and I wanted to be a writer or a costume designer meant nothing so I wasn’t able to do both Art AND Needlework either. I was useless at languages and yet forced to take both French and German, both of which I failed miserably at. My commiserations about the typing. I peck away at the keyboard like a performing seal on a piano too. It’s taken me twice as long to adjust the mistakes in this piece as it did to type it.