3.232 wild boys, umlauts, and noisy laptops (110)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Mon, 10 Jul 89 21:36:41 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 232. Monday, 10 Jul 1989.


(1) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 10:03:09 BST (14 lines)
From: stephen clark <AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Wild Boys etc

(2) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 15:06:21 EDT (21 lines)
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: Re: 3.218 umlauts

(3) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 89 17:38:47 EDT (15 lines)
From: Donald J. Mabry <djmabry@msstate>
Subject: Re: 3.227 noisy keyboards (laptops) (56)

(4) Date: Sat, 08 Jul 89 22:10:31 CDT (18 lines)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: Re: 3.227 noisy keyboards (laptops) (56)

(5) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 09:39:51 CDT (14 lines)
From: Steven J. DeRose <D106GFS@UTARLVM1>
Subject: Computers in libraries

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 10:03:09 BST
From: stephen clark <AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Wild Boys etc

See Lucien Malson Les Enfants Sauvages, and Memoire et rapport sur
Victoire de l'Aveyron (Paris 1964)
Also Jean-Claude Armen, Gazelle Boy (Bodley Head: London 1974) - evocative
but could do with more convincing evidence.
See also (debunkingly) C.Levi-Strauss, Elementary Structures of Kinship
chapter I: "it seems clear that most of these children were congenital
defectives, and that their imbecility was the cause of their initial
abandonment and not, as might sometimes be insisted, the result" - it
isn't clear to me (but then neither is the opposite).
Stephen
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 15:06:21 EDT
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: Re: Re: [3.218 uncertainty] and umlauts

> From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [3.218 uncertainty, science, the humanities (63)]

> And does anyone know how to transmit an umlaut over e-mail?

Two ways, at least. You can type the letter followed by a "
symbol, as follows:

a" as in Universita"t
o" as in Ko"ln
u" as in fru"h
A" as in A"mte
U" as in U"ber

Or, if it's German, you can follow the umlauted vowel by an e.

--Greg Goode
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 89 17:38:47 EDT
Subject: Re: 3.227 noisy keyboards (laptops) (56)
From: Donald J. Mabry <djmabry@msstate>

In re KSTEELE@UTOREPAS's comments (and those of others) regarding beeps
of spell-checkers, my versions of WordPerfect allow me to turn off the
beeps. Perhaps this is true with other word processing programs.

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Date: Sat, 08 Jul 89 22:10:31 CDT
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: Re: 3.227 noisy keyboards (laptops) (56)

For those of us who actually know how to type and learned before the
advent of computer keyboards, especially those of us referred to by
others as "touch typists," the physical and audible feel of the keys
hitting home is the fastest and surest indicator we have that a key
has actually been struck home. I, myself, have never been able to stand
either quiet or spongy keyboards, since I usually type at between 50 and
100 words per minute and I don't look at the screen to get my feedback.
In fact (and contrary to the previous argument - that no self-respecting
Humanist would be seen in public using a spelling program) my typing has
actually improved in speed because I no longer go back to correct typos,
but leave that for the spell checkers. I realize that real typists are
a true rarity amongst computer users, or this point would have been made
far earlier. I particularly like the genuine IBM keyboards, and hit the
keys quite firmly to hear and feel what is going on.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 09:39:51 CDT
From: Steven J. DeRose <D106GFS@UTARLVM1>
Subject: Computers in libraries

How about wiring an earphone plug into your laptop, so the keyboard noise
(at least on some models, generated electronically) can go to a pair of
Walkman(tm?) earphones? That way the user can have clicks, while the
surroundings can remain in blissful quietude. The modification no doubt
would void the warranty, but most machines are out of warranty anyway.
All of 2 wires would likely need changing, and the typical earphone plug
is built to automatically disconnect the main speaker when and only when
an earphone is in fact plugged in.

SJD, momentarily overcome by technoid-mode....