Talk:typewrite

Is the past tense "typewrote"? --Bran

RFV discussion
The verb is (and was) to type. --Connel MacKenzie 04:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * now cited. Thryduulf 09:22, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Typewrite is bad enough as a verb, but I'm truly impressed by the use of comuter percentage as a verb in your 1935 quotation ... — Beobach972 16:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * It was actually "compute percentage". It's fixed now. —RuakhTALK 16:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd like to see a usage note (if nothing else) explaining why the word type is favored now. --Connel MacKenzie 20:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)


 * If it citeably is preferred, and the reason for this is citeable, then go ahead and add such a usage note. My guess is that in current usage "typewrite" is used almost exclusively to specify the use of a typewriter rather than a computer, with "type" used generically; but I've not looked to see if there is any supporting evidence for this. If it is the case, then the usage note could say this, but I'm not sure that it would be accurate to say that "type" is preferred over "typewrite" as the meanings are different, in much the same way that neither "write" nor "handwrite" are preferred over the other, although the former will naturally get more usage being the generic term referring to all forms of writing, whereas the latter is only used in circumstances where the distinction is important. Thryduulf 22:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

RFV passed. —Ruakh TALK 01:12, 18 October 2007 (UTC)