Shake

... my spell checker was called a "dic-tion-ary"
... for a thesaurus, I pulled out a copy of Roget's
... cut and paste meant using scissors and glue (or Scotch tape)
... my "word processor" was a typewriter (learned on a non-electric one even!)
... to quickly get another copy meant using the Xerox machine at the library (you know, the place with all the books)
... handwritten was fine if you didn't have access to a typewriter


Of course, I did do some smaller papers on (school) computer ... and I say small, because we weren't given tons of disk space (heck, the school's server had a 1M hard drive), and you had to do all the double-spacing yourself. The only nice thing about that though, was the printer could give you 10+ pages in about 10 seconds!

SULPHUR

The correct spelling is defaecation and instead of "as well" the appropiate term is "also"

Nikolai

And so this becomes another thread where all fear to post because of the inevitable spell checking your writing will be subjected with...

Tenek

Prepositions aren't things you should end sentences with.

Buddrow_Wilson

The first time I was required to write a paper with double-spacing, what I turned in had two spaces between each word.:banghead:

orac

By the time I got to college, handwritten essays were banned - they simply would not be accepted.

I think this was because torturing teachers is still illegal.

Buddrow_Wilson

My college english teacher accepted papers handwritten during lunch before class...only taking a single letter grade down...resulting in a B. Then again I was "special" to her.

SULPHUR

grammer is one thing for which I am fed up.

VonEvilstein

Well, otherwise you end up with the "kind of English up with which I will not put!", as Sir Winston once put it.


And I remember getting papers marked down because I hadn't written them by hand. Handwriting sometimes seems to be the most important thing of all in Dutch schools. OK, well in the ones I went to, then.

Daisy

Hopefully, you're being sarcastic.