The above YouTube video shows someone typing quite fast on the iPhone. He or she writes:
“People who can’t type fast on this phone are retarded.”
Fast iPhone Typing
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20 responses to “Fast iPhone Typing”
This is likely off topic, but why do people who are retarded always take the hit? Even in the Cult of Mac!
Some people who type QUICKLY on this phone have bad grammar.
and some people who comment on grammar skills also have poor grammar. ;)
No Leander,
The user in the video (and possibly yourself for publishing it in your blog) are more likely the ones with the mental deficiency. Not only has this cretin they forked over hundreds of dollars (and promised to fork over many more) for a phone and a contract they he or she most likely didn’t need, he or she also made the basic error of assuming a link between dexterity and intelligence. Any cretin would realise that someone like Stephen Hawking would not be able to type on the lame inaccessible iPhone keyboard, let alone any of the many people Apple have excluded by creating a touch sensitive device requiring a high level of dexterity and the use of complex gestures.
Simon,
Let me translate the Youtube poster’s comment for you:“People who can’t type fast on this phone are retarded.â€ÂÂ= “It’s easy to learn to type quickly on this phone.â€ÂÂ
You need to take a chill pill and not be so literal.
Joseph,
My partner has Cerebral Palsy. She also has 2 university degrees and a fulfilling career. There is no way she could learn to type fast on “this phone” or any device with a small keyboard not usable with a pen or stylus. She doesn’t have that degree of control over her fingers.
She’s no ‘retard’ though!
“Retarded” is an archaic expression for someone with a significant intellectual impairment. Its use in describing someone who, through no fault of their own, can’t operate a touch screen device is offensive to my partner and many others with physical impairments.
That’s the point I’m trying to make.
If you couldn’t deduce this from my Stephen Hawking reference, perhaps you might have been describable as ‘retarded’ in a less enlightened bygone age…
Is that a joke? It just seems so………… scripted.
I’ve got to agree with Simon on this one. It is clear enough that the author meant to express how easy it was to type on the iPhone. However, “retarded” as a term, is not only inappropriate, but passé. I mean, “like it is like totally like an 80’s expression, like whatever.” It is a term that needs to be expunged from the English language just like Paris Hilton needs to be expunged from North American media.
Simon,
It’s a good thing you don’t have an iPhone. Realize is spelled with a “z” and I’m pretty sure the iPhone wouldn’t have it any other way.
And before you tell me that you are from Britain and realize is spelled with an “s” and colour with a “u,” do me a favor and blow it out your arse.
Professor
Professor
One can only hope that you are not what your name implies – a “professor” (although you might one of those vain Americans who ‘buy’ their degrees). I’m the person to whom Simon was referring and find it quite intriguing that Apple [E]nthusiasts are so pretentious and up-tight [tight-arsed] about ‘their’ brand; ‘their’ [dysfunctional] operating system/s; ‘their’ products.
I tried to use the useless apple the other day… With the accessibilities options on and open-sourced office, Simon’s prize possession (Apple “believers” god of plastic and data chips) crashed like a bridge of straw trying to convey a high-powered sports car.
Don’t bother replying…I’m have more interesting things to do.