On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Graham Brown wrote:
> ("kids won't be able to write NEMORE, when they use texting all day!").
Well, that's certainly a noticable problem in Japan. It's not infrequent
that when I ask someone what the kanji for a word is, she grabs her phone,
punches in the hiragana, and scrolls through the character list to find
the character.
But it's not really keitai that did this; computers were really the start
of this problem. So now that we've finally reached the stage where even
a $100 PDA has enough CPU and memory to do direct kanji input, nobody's
interested because nobody knows kanji any more. :-)
But it's funny that being a proficient typist is seen as something
worth teaching in schools, but being a fast keitai-typer is seen as a
bad thing. I mean, if you spend all your time typing, you'd presumably
also lose the same amount of writing ability.
cjs
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Received on Fri Aug 3 13:14:53 2001