On 15 May 2014, at 1:47 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The memory is sharp, Max, & what we learned, or in my case, did not (still cant touch type).
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> Are you using the passive to suggest tour subject position toward this tech? Or?
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> Doug
Ah,Doug, I never forget the advice to avoid the passive! but also minimise ‘I’.
So ‘was taught us’ and ‘were shown’ avoid the ‘I’
and maybe hint at the way armies treat recruits.
[Those of our ‘intake’ who couldn’t swim (shame!)
were taken off bayonet drill and sent to the pool for lessons,
all that summer of 1956…]
> On May 14, 2014, at 2:10 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Typing in the Fifties
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>> Dad’s typewriter,
>> like his car, my bike
>> and Mum’s Singer,
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>> was British,
- by the way, I know Singer was US,
but I think NZ’s sewing machines were shipped from Glasgow..
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