Comments on: Touch-Typing http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm Listening to The Voice Within Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:30:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Jochen http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50930 Jochen Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:28:55 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50930 Not at all! Mentioning the age of my driving licence, I only intended to say that I consider myself a reasonably proficient typist/driver as long as speed is not the main or only criterion. Nothing to do with age. Give me several more decades and I will be as young as Jack is. Not at all! Mentioning the age of my driving licence, I only intended to say that I consider myself a reasonably proficient typist/driver as long as speed is not the main or only criterion. Nothing to do with age. Give me several more decades and I will be as young as Jack is.

]]> By: Gloria http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50922 Gloria Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:26:13 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50922 Senor, are you saying you believe in such things as age and all the things about age that have been circulated? Senor, are you saying you believe in such things as age and all the things about age that have been circulated?

]]> By: Jochen http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50920 Jochen Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:12:08 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50920 I just love your little story, Pam. Penchant for typing errors exponentially increasing with need to be accurate -- oh yes, I'm quite experienced there too. There is no way of predicting my score in a test, but you can be fairly sure it would be negative even today. But then, I have my driving licence since 1964. Where would I end up in a car race? See? I just love your little story, Pam. Penchant for typing errors exponentially increasing with need to be accurate — oh yes, I’m quite experienced there too. There is no way of predicting my score in a test, but you can be fairly sure it would be negative even today. But then, I have my driving licence since 1964. Where would I end up in a car race? See?

]]> By: Gloria http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50908 Gloria Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:54:12 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50908 Oh, Pam, this is so funny. How can someone say you type minus four!!! You would have gotten a better score if you hadn't typed at all! Oh, Pam, this is so funny. How can someone say you type minus four!!! You would have gotten a better score if you hadn’t typed at all!

]]> By: Pam (fortheloveofGodde) http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50907 Pam (fortheloveofGodde) Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:49:20 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50907 Meant to add that I took typing reluctantly in high school--it was a required class. Why, I don't know and I never intended to have to need it. Then a few years after graduating, I went to business college. Way back then, typing tests were timed and two points were taken off for every error. If you timed 60 words per minute and made 5 errors, your score was 50 words per minute. My first test was -4. Minus 4 words per minute typing speed. One of my first jobs was a secretary at a local university. My penchant for typing errors exponentially increased with the need to be accurate, such as typing on those dreaded blue mimeograph things (before copy machines). They had this blue-glue type stuff that had to be painted on any errors. I'd rush mine in to the mimeograph machine before the supervisor saw how bad it was. Meant to add that I took typing reluctantly in high school–it was a required class. Why, I don’t know and I never intended to have to need it. Then a few years after graduating, I went to business college. Way back then, typing tests were timed and two points were taken off for every error. If you timed 60 words per minute and made 5 errors, your score was 50 words per minute. My first test was -4. Minus 4 words per minute typing speed. One of my first jobs was a secretary at a local university. My penchant for typing errors exponentially increased with the need to be accurate, such as typing on those dreaded blue mimeograph things (before copy machines). They had this blue-glue type stuff that had to be painted on any errors. I’d rush mine in to the mimeograph machine before the supervisor saw how bad it was.

]]> By: Pam (fortheloveofGodde) http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50905 Pam (fortheloveofGodde) Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:30:56 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50905 How you explain your writing as "impressionistic" suits. Poetry does not have to rhyme, and writing poetically is a Godde-given talent, as is your facility at learning new languages. I wholeheartedly agree with Gloria. I love reading your blog responses and forum entries. How you explain your writing as “impressionistic” suits. Poetry does not have to rhyme, and writing poetically is a Godde-given talent, as is your facility at learning new languages.

I wholeheartedly agree with Gloria. I love reading your blog responses and forum entries.

]]> By: Gloria http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50890 Gloria Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:03:44 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50890 The writing you do on this blog and on the forum is exquisite beyond belief. It is so delicate and intelligent, and I imagine it just flows from you. It is simply your heart and mind on paper. I wonder if you think writing is SOMETHING when it is simply you. The writing you do on this blog and on the forum is exquisite beyond belief. It is so delicate and intelligent, and I imagine it just flows from you. It is simply your heart and mind on paper.

I wonder if you think writing is SOMETHING when it is simply you.

]]> By: Jochen http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50805 Jochen Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:20:26 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50805 If I were going to be a writer? Music is my favorite medium, but not one I am able to express myself in. My writing would be "musical", you might call it poetic but without being poetry in the strict sense of the word, not in verse. I don't like stories, I don't like analyses and explanations, I don't like teaching and enlightening stuff. "Impressionistic" might be the word. Vignettes. I just looked up "vignette" in my digital dictionary, and one of its definitions, most wonderfully fitting, is this: "a small illustration or portrait photograph that fades into its background without a definite border". Yes, I know a few (German/Austrian) authors who wrote that way. Better to say: who managed to write that way even so in their day you had to "say something". There may be others today. I don't know. I don't read. I'm not interested. I'm only interested in personal communication. Languages. Oh yes, I'd love to learn many. But not from books and not in classes. Only in the countries themselves. I still dream of it. Thanks for opening and offering a space here, Jochen If I were going to be a writer?

Music is my favorite medium, but not one I am able to express myself in. My writing would be “musical”, you might call it poetic but without being poetry in the strict sense of the word, not in verse. I don’t like stories, I don’t like analyses and explanations, I don’t like teaching and enlightening stuff. “Impressionistic” might be the word. Vignettes. I just looked up “vignette” in my digital dictionary, and one of its definitions, most wonderfully fitting, is this: “a small illustration or portrait photograph that fades into its background without a definite border”.

Yes, I know a few (German/Austrian) authors who wrote that way. Better to say: who managed to write that way even so in their day you had to “say something”. There may be others today. I don’t know. I don’t read. I’m not interested. I’m only interested in personal communication.

Languages. Oh yes, I’d love to learn many. But not from books and not in classes. Only in the countries themselves. I still dream of it.

Thanks for opening and offering a space here,
Jochen

]]> By: Gloria http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50638 Gloria Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:17:32 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50638 Beloved Jochen, obviously, you don't need touch typing! I know I couldn't possibly go through learning it now! On the other hand, you know so many languages and so well and you study them because of some inner impulse, yes? Translator sounds like it's right up your alley. However, you are not feeling this way! I think your own writing is amazing. How your words flow. How you express exquisite understanding. Let us just play a game, okay? If you were going to be a writer, what do you imagine you would like to write? What sort of book? Is there an author you especially admire and would like to write like? Loving you, Gloria Beloved Jochen, obviously, you don’t need touch typing! I know I couldn’t possibly go through learning it now!

On the other hand, you know so many languages and so well and you study them because of some inner impulse, yes?

Translator sounds like it’s right up your alley. However, you are not feeling this way!

I think your own writing is amazing. How your words flow. How you express exquisite understanding.

Let us just play a game, okay? If you were going to be a writer, what do you imagine you would like to write?
What sort of book? Is there an author you especially admire and would like to write like?

Loving you, Gloria

]]> By: Jochen http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50632 Jochen Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:07:13 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/touch-typing-business.htm#comment-50632 Still typing with two fingers after 140 book translations. You have to think most of the time, so it doesn't matter that much there. I have attempted to learn touch-typing. I thought it might be more effective if I didn't have to watch my fingers. I found I hated learning it and so didn't. I guess that after 33 years I still think my job is only a stopgap until I find my true calling. That's a joke I can laugh about again and again. And harder each time. Still typing with two fingers after 140 book translations. You have to think most of the time, so it doesn’t matter that much there. I have attempted to learn touch-typing. I thought it might be more effective if I didn’t have to watch my fingers. I found I hated learning it and so didn’t. I guess that after 33 years I still think my job is only a stopgap until I find my true calling. That’s a joke I can laugh about again and again. And harder each time.

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