From: Michael Everson
Message: 6156
Date: 2005-10-04
>But untrained individuals can keyboard English by looking at the keysHunting and pecking would be suboptimal self-training.
>with absolultely no training once they know the capital letters, which
>children in kindergarten learn first anyway.
>Other scripts should have something available for the untrained. WhyWhy not train them? Why such a patronizing attitude?
>such an elitist attitude?
>Do you think that there is something sacred about the alphabet,Yes.
>the keyboard,No.
>the touch typist,No.
>etc, etc? thatThe teeming millions are not too stupid to learn how to type. And
>only we, the oligoi, should alone have access to the internet.