On 11/24/03 1:38 AM tass wrote: >Yes, of course I put in my own returns. That's proper typing; >whether on paper, in a computer window, or so it might be printed >at the other end. To do otherwise is, I'm sorry to say, a laziness >induced by word processing programs that do the job for you, if >you let it. But it had never made it proper.
Yes, putting in your own returns was proper on a typewriter; you couldn't do it any other way. I am old enough to remember those days. You might have to retype a whole page, or even several pages, in order to add a comma or change a word. I'd like to have 10 cents for every minute I spent figuring out how to make a correction that would avoid all that -- I could buy my wife and myself a fine dinner! I call it "efficiency," not "laziness." In a way, I suppose word processing programs have made us lazy. Corrections are so easy now, I don't think through my wording as carefully as I once had to. I wore out a lot of pencils making drafts back then. Len -- Leonard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] People like me like me. --An example of why direct computer translation won't ever work.
