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2. Laconic phrase - Wikipedia

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   A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder. [1] [2] It is named after Laconia, the region of Greece including the city of Sparta, whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their often pithy remarks.

3. Talk:Words per minute - Wikipedia

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   In this case, the language and equipment should be comparable (I do not see the location as important). It would seem the confused author is relating such measures as pressure, temperature, etc. and in this case, it is simply not needed. No one would consider hiring a typist (is that still a profession) that could not type in a specific language.

4. Speech tempo - Wikipedia

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   Speech tempo is a measure of the number of speech units of a given type produced within a given amount of time. Speech tempo is believed to vary within the speech of one person according to contextual and emotional factors, between speakers and also between different languages and dialects.

5. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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   Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.

6. Keysmash - Wikipedia

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   Dictionary.com lists keysmash as both a noun ("I typed a keysmash") and a verb ("I keysmashed a response"), dating the term to sometime between 1995 and 2000. [1]The first commonly used variation of "keysmashing" appeared and possibly first majorly originated from the Turkish internet sphere, where the so-called "random laugh", or "random" (as said in Turkish) has been in use since at least ...

7. Moses McCormick - Wikipedia

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   McCormick taught language lessons remotely over the Internet, [7] over time developing his own language learning method, which he called FLR (Foreign Language Roadrunning). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] According to his YouTube biography, "When I first began language learning 20 years ago, I noticed that most language books and classes did not teach students how ...