tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post5888990699428384984..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Font YouUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-12813418518208017182010-07-19T14:10:37.914-04:002010-07-19T14:10:37.914-04:00The question isn't whether people should own t...The question isn't whether people should own typewriters. The question is whether people should know that they (and other non-21st-century technologies) existed.<br /><br />We probably agree that people shouldn't own slaves, but that issue is irrelevant to the question of whether college students should be expected to know that slavery used to exist in the U.S., and that its former Dude the Obscurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882641759616338900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72639177463927128572010-07-18T06:31:24.814-04:002010-07-18T06:31:24.814-04:00"Who uses a typewriter anymore? Can you even ..."Who uses a typewriter anymore? Can you even buy new typewriters these days? If you want to be a Luddite, it's your choice, but you have to expect some people to be taken aback by it. Especially college students, who've likely never seen a typewriter." <br /><br />I own two, and I wasn't around to witness 1964 personally. You can't buy new typewriters, but you can find Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-12345236369286181012010-07-17T21:01:39.587-04:002010-07-17T21:01:39.587-04:00@The Spare Queen - I doubt he was talking about Co...@The Spare Queen - I doubt he was talking about Courier New. All students know Courier New: it's the font that makes papers longer.Elsa Martinezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03038133077768613833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-80922780339386619672010-07-17T18:03:37.937-04:002010-07-17T18:03:37.937-04:00I'm afraid I have no patience with anyone taki...I'm afraid I have no patience with anyone taking issue with College Boy's post. If it's on Cracked (http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts/), the flakes don't have any excuse.The Spare Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15176078390463249556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44896032347014957322010-07-17T14:55:16.499-04:002010-07-17T14:55:16.499-04:00Many older source materials were written on typewr...Many older source materials were written on typewriters. If you go into you department office, you will likely find a typewriter that is used for filling out forms. There is really no excuse for even the freshest freshman not to know what a typewriter is.College Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11090279986552451411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-9709449380927161712010-07-17T13:26:53.483-04:002010-07-17T13:26:53.483-04:00Who uses a typewriter anymore? Can you even buy ne...Who uses a typewriter anymore? Can you even buy new typewriters these days? If you want to be a Luddite, it's your choice, but you have to expect some people to be taken aback by it. Especially college students, who've likely never seen a typewriter.Library Divahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13560661276385382375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-23361250939870350902010-07-17T03:34:49.575-04:002010-07-17T03:34:49.575-04:00Think of the freshmen-sophmore (sometimes junior-s...Think of the freshmen-sophmore (sometimes junior-senior) group as dogs. Dogs have poor personal memories so they live in the Now....for a dog what happened an hour ago could have taken place in the Edwardian period. Remember also that students live in a culture that loathes thinking, has no true historical memory, and values money over culture. You could probably blow their tiny minds talking Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44006207390858813512010-07-16T23:18:30.160-04:002010-07-16T23:18:30.160-04:00I am writing a novel set in 1991-93 and I am findi...I am writing a novel set in 1991-93 and I am finding that young people have the hardest time with it. (You have to go to a university to get on the Internet? Duuuude! I get it on my cellphone. What do you mean no one had cellphones?).<br /><br />-MikeCollege Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11090279986552451411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86922574302617688422010-07-16T22:57:24.090-04:002010-07-16T22:57:24.090-04:00I certainly concur with Dude (although let's b...I certainly concur with Dude (although let's be serious: most of the snowiest of snowflakes would never stoop to watch <i>Mad Men</i>), but I have found myself too often in Marcia's place by having to explain, in detail and with pictures, technologies ubiquitous in older pop culture shows that my contemporaneous students never paid attention enough to figure out:<br /><br />Like that TVs The_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-22120065313058034622010-07-16T21:12:49.456-04:002010-07-16T21:12:49.456-04:00When students arrive at college, many of them are ...When students arrive at college, many of them are old enough to vote, and many of them consider themselves intelligent and experienced enough to make demands about what and how they should be taught (er, coddled) by both their adjunct and their tenured servants. Yet they can't be expected to know about technology that was ubiquitous a mere 10 years before they were born? Or about anything Dude the Obscurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882641759616338900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16223000925450856152010-07-16T21:12:25.869-04:002010-07-16T21:12:25.869-04:00College Boy, I hear you on this one. To the averag...College Boy, I hear you on this one. To the average student, typewriting may be more retro/obscure than you'd realize--but one would hope our students would have enough cultural literacy to realize the X-Files "font" is simply typewritten text.Dr. Snarkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927913541614307813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49200905209671656642010-07-16T19:47:52.911-04:002010-07-16T19:47:52.911-04:00I had to explain to my kid that "dialing the ...I had to explain to my kid that "dialing the phone" meant pushing buttons, and "hanging up" meant pushing the "off" button, and no, that didn't make sense. So, you know, who knows what kind of weird multiple temporalities kids live in when it comes to technology? <br /><br />If he'd said "cool Courier font," would you have let him off the hook?Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26810418608242809522010-07-16T19:32:12.162-04:002010-07-16T19:32:12.162-04:00Obscure? Really?
And I would say that typewriter...Obscure? Really?<br /><br />And I would say that typewriters are hardly ubiquitous these days.New England Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01035798065496710431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56677997191621478042010-07-16T18:40:06.500-04:002010-07-16T18:40:06.500-04:00The X-Files are a television show while a typewrit...The X-Files are a television show while a typewriter is a ubiquitous piece of office equipment. You would think that when someone sees something that came off a typewriter, they would say, "Oh, that came off a typewriter," not that it is a font that they used in an obscure television program.College Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11090279986552451411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18589778835315625302010-07-16T17:01:47.032-04:002010-07-16T17:01:47.032-04:00Um...didn't the opening scene of X-Files conta...Um...didn't the opening scene of X-Files contain font of an electric typewriter? Usually the date or location of the episode, which had a typewriter noise as it came on screen...The_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67215215240627118862010-07-16T16:06:06.864-04:002010-07-16T16:06:06.864-04:00All righty, but a font with that name does exist. ...All righty, but a font with that name does exist. I didn't see the text you distributed. Apologies.W.T. Pfefferlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522687306482305195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-8731686309804172622010-07-16T14:35:42.178-04:002010-07-16T14:35:42.178-04:00That looks nothing like the typeface in the text t...That looks nothing like the typeface in the text that I distributed.College Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11090279986552451411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11937868263113950382010-07-16T13:40:26.934-04:002010-07-16T13:40:26.934-04:00http://content.altfonts.com/img/X/0/X-FilesA.pnghttp://content.altfonts.com/img/X/0/X-FilesA.pngW.T. Pfefferlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522687306482305195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53071818112822905582010-07-16T09:29:13.348-04:002010-07-16T09:29:13.348-04:00Not sure what the context of this was, but... in h...Not sure what the context of this was, but... in his defense (as much as I hate to), I do have a font on my computer called "X-Files."Andréahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10545896765853101419noreply@blogger.com