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Originally posted by Murad
Dont know about others, but I enjoy an easy life. I think thats pretty much all we can really hope for in this life, I enjoy taking it easy, im not lazy by any stretch, I do a lot of work and am fairly active, but one thing I make sure off is that I have a very easy life.
Its awesome.
When using only a dictionary you are psychologically more inclined to remember a word for longer because it takes longer to find the spelling.
Originally posted by Poopooplatter
While I do agree that kids become fat from staying inside too much and unhealthy diet from lazy parents, I don't think predictive typing on computers hurts anything. There was spell check before that, and a dictionary before that. This changes nothing. I still reread my typing when I believe it matters and double check it. These methods are just faster, but all give the same result. If anything now people realize that all along they were spelling simple words wrong...
Originally posted by Murad
reply to post by TechUnique
I dunno how it is for you mate, but I use the conveniences of modern life to make my life easier, do I want to spend hours trying to get in a busy city center, trudge through a shopping malls, buying one thing here, one thing there, 2 things over there, maybe do some more driving, stuck in traffic, buy something else there.
Nah screw that, think ill use the internet instead, next day delivery sounds to me!, now time to relax and do the things i want to do, not the things I dont want to do.
What is all this ease and convenience doing to us? Its turning our brains and bodies to mush. Especially our children as they are brought straight into this world of technological ease, more so than we were, the generation before us and so on.
Originally posted by TechUnique
When using only a dictionary you are psychologically more inclined to remember a word for longer because it takes longer to find the spelling.
Originally posted by Poopooplatter
While I do agree that kids become fat from staying inside too much and unhealthy diet from lazy parents, I don't think predictive typing on computers hurts anything. There was spell check before that, and a dictionary before that. This changes nothing. I still reread my typing when I believe it matters and double check it. These methods are just faster, but all give the same result. If anything now people realize that all along they were spelling simple words wrong...
This is honestly the truth, think about it. You can use this 'formula' in many different ways.
Originally posted by frazzle
reply to post by TechUnique
What is all this ease and convenience doing to us? Its turning our brains and bodies to mush. Especially our children as they are brought straight into this world of technological ease, more so than we were, the generation before us and so on.
Maybe I'm out of touch on this subject but it seems that it's more the feeling of useless and being constrained by society as a whole that's the root cause of the malaise. People stay distracted in whatever ways they can if there's nothing great to aspire to that someone else isn't already doing or doesn't have a patent on or isn't against the law.
But the outlandish stats on the number of people taking anti depressants is a big clue that many mushy brains are engineered.
edit on 5-8-2012 by frazzle because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Poopooplatter
Originally posted by TechUnique
When using only a dictionary you are psychologically more inclined to remember a word for longer because it takes longer to find the spelling.
Originally posted by Poopooplatter
While I do agree that kids become fat from staying inside too much and unhealthy diet from lazy parents, I don't think predictive typing on computers hurts anything. There was spell check before that, and a dictionary before that. This changes nothing. I still reread my typing when I believe it matters and double check it. These methods are just faster, but all give the same result. If anything now people realize that all along they were spelling simple words wrong...
This is honestly the truth, think about it. You can use this 'formula' in many different ways.
What about the easy words that were wrong all along, that you never looked up because you didn't know better?