"whats cut and paste"

[tec699]

I was in class a while back and my professor had given us a simple extra credit assignment. She wanted everyone to find something of importance on the internet, cut and paste it and email it to her. Should be simple...

Well this one girl had no clue and she had to ask the porfessor what cut and paste meant. My professor then walked the girl to her office after class and showed my peer the proper way to cut and paste.

 

[rh71]

not everyone in the outside world is a computer dork.

 

[Rage187]

girls should be in the kitchen cooking meh dinnah!

 

[brunswickite]

If I never used a computer, I would not know how to "cut and paste" either.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: rh71
not everyone in the outside world is a computer dork.

true, but comeon. Cut and pasting material should be so simple. Especially when your going to be teaching and especially since technology is a HUGE part of todays society.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
If I never used a computer, I would not know how to "cut and paste" either.

If this was the stone age then true. But it's the year 2004 and technology is of main importance in our society. If she can't do something as easy as cut and pasting material then her computer skills are severly lacking.

just my opinion.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: rh71
not everyone in the outside world is a computer dork.

true, but comeon. Cut and pasting material should be so simple. Especially when your going to be teaching and especially since technology is a HUGE part of todays society.

On the same token, English teachers would rip your sentences apart. Different strokes for different folks.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: rh71
not everyone in the outside world is a computer dork.

true, but comeon. Cut and pasting material should be so simple. Especially when your going to be teaching and especially since technology is a HUGE part of todays society.

On the same token, English teachers would rip your sentences apart. Different strokes for different folks.

True but then again I'm on a forum and not in a classroom being graded by my professor. My writing style on the internet is of the free flowing nature.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: tec699
I was in class a while back and my professor had given us a simple extra credit assignment. She wanted everyone to find something of importance on the internet, cut and paste it and email it to her. Should be simple...

Well this one girl had no clue and she had to ask the porfessor what cut and paste meant. My professor then walked the girl to her office after class and showed my peer the proper way to cut and paste.

You know, that's copy and paste...being as how you didn't remove anything from the internet.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: brunswickite
If I never used a computer, I would not know how to "cut and paste" either.

If this was the stone age then true. But it's the year 2004 and technology is of main importance in our society. If she can't do something as easy as cut and pasting material then her computer skills are severly lacking.

just my opinion.

Cars have been around for 100 years, and are basically the backbone of our society, but most people don't know how to do a simple oil change.

Still want to argue?

 

[dbk]

Is english her second language? or third? or fourth?

 

[Pex]

its copy paste anyway

 

[element]

Originally posted by: Rage187
girls should be in the kitchen cooking meh dinnah!

Well yeah, but first they need to get the recipe off the innernet.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

:roll: ranks right up there with people asking what key the upside down lower case "i" is.....duh the exclamaition point "!"

 

[AreaCode707]

And I showed my boss' boss how to do that. And then had to point out that the stuff on the clipboard stayed there til you overwrote it.

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: rh71
not everyone in the outside world is a computer dork.

true, but comeon. Cut and pasting material should be so simple. Especially when your going to be teaching and especially since technology is a HUGE part of todays society.

On the same token, English teachers would rip your sentences apart. Different strokes for different folks.

 

[element]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
:roll: ranks right up there with people asking what key the upside down lower case "i" is.....duh the exclamaition point "!"

You know in Spanish they have an upside down exclamation point. As well as an upside down question mark. So question is, señor exclamation expert, is that just a lowercase i or a different character altogether?

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: rh71
not everyone in the outside world is a computer dork.

Hardly have to be a "computer dork" to know how to cut and paste... :disgust: And fwiw I'd much rather be a "computer dork" than a reality-TV-watching, Dell-owning, AOL-using, SUV-driving idjit. Further, the OP didn't say the girl in question was a dork of any kind or otherwise insult her; he merely mentioned it for our amusement. Apprently it hit a bit close to home for some

 

[dighn]

lots of ppl are computer illiterate. it really not that suprising

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: brunswickite
If I never used a computer, I would not know how to "cut and paste" either.

If this was the stone age then true. But it's the year 2004 and technology is of main importance in our society. If she can't do something as easy as cut and pasting material then her computer skills are severly lacking.

just my opinion.

Cars have been around for 100 years, and are basically the backbone of our society, but most people don't know how to do a simple oil change.

Still want to argue?

Well neither do people know how to reformat their computer.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Actually, it's "copy and paste." ALmost 99.99% of people say "cut and paste" when they mean copy stuff and paste it in documents such as research papers when quoting.

Cut and paste = removing text from its current position and pasting it to another location.
Copy and paste = duplicating text and pasting it to another location.

There is a difference.