From 1960 to 1964 I had the privilege
of attending St. Charles Borromeo Preparatory High School. Now one
would think that a school that prepared you to attend college would
require a typing course. Back in those golden years before computers
and word processors a typewriter was essential at the college level.
Instructors supposedly would not grade down for a hand written paper
but encouraged you to have a typed report.
While I attended college there was an
entire industry devoted to typing papers for students. However they
charged by the word or page not sure which, more than likely the
page. I never could afford to pay to have my papers typed, nor did we
own a typewriter.
So now in the days of computers I wear
calluses on one or two fingers trying to navigate emails , blogs and
other computer operations which require typing. Recently I have
purchased Dragon software, which is a voice recognition program. So
far it has proved to be interesting and considering the fact that my
dictation is fair at best, the program works well. I am also learning
to speak clearer while using it and it is trying to learn my poor
dictation.
Even though the process requires
proofreading, it is not perfect, I find it easier to use than typing.
It also provides some very interesting errors. So if sometime you are
reading a blog or an email from someone and it makes no or very
little sense you might find that they used this software and did not
do a good job of proofreading.
