From: John Doe
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 12:42 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Typing vs keyboarding: Note this subtle difference

As you compose the polemic of the moment, or perhaps writing a book, and your fingers are in lightning flight, you are keyboarding; i.e. the recorded information originates in your brain, moves to your fingers and thereafter to an e-record via the keyboard.

Typing describes an activity in which the information starts on a piece of paper, moves first through the eye to the brain and thence to the fingers and finally an e-record.  A fast typist ordinarily has no idea what he/he has just typed.  A foreign language is no problem either to a typist if its letters are the same ones on a querty keyboard.  Indeed, a typist doesn't really have to know how to read!

While you clearly have world class rank as a keyboardist, I suspect you would be feeble at best as a typist.  Am I wrong?

John Doe