Re: where do so many tenses come from?

In article <443576a9$0$3695$a729d347@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Marques?= <m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Brian M. Scott wrote:

I have never used such software, and I won't. It's so much
faster to write than to speak. It's so much tiring and slower
to speak than to write.

It is? Shorthand was invented because writing could not
even match slow speech, let alone fast. A good , but not
outstanding, typist manages close to 100 words per minute,
while ordinary speech is close to double that. Few
expert shorthand people can match fast speech.

When I attempted to test my writing speed, I found it to
be about 20 words per minute.

And computers are so inept at
recognizing speech.

And they will be as long as they attempt to do
everything in the frequency domain. This works
well for vowels, but not for consonants.

There was a technical report, IBM I believe, with
the title, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach". This is
what happens when a seascape engineer gets a
speech recognition program.

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While composing you tend to rely on writing. Before keyboards, people
wrote with pens. I don't think composing is generally compatible with
speech. If writing isn't available, people usually take time to draw a
mental sketch before communicating it to other medium.

I disagree. It is quite possible; I do it often.

If computers could understand you flawlessly, there would only be
only marginal use for keyboards.

People cannot understand flawlessly. If they could, why
would alphabetic acronyms (able for A, etc.) have been
developed and used.

I doubt that this is true.

In an environment where you can't talk aloud, speech isn't a viable option.

Or for cases where eavesdroppers are not wanted, such as
entering a password. Also, typing is faster than dragging
symbols from a template.
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