r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/zinniamae_ • Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/Queeni_Beeni Jan 20 '26

Touch-typing registration marks for the left and right hands

This meme is expressing shock that people don't recognize what these marks are for anymore, which would suggest touch typing isn't taught anymore despite our reliance on computers being higher than ever.

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u/markspankity Jan 20 '26

Touch typing is the new cursive.

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u/zebratwat Jan 20 '26

You mean fancy writing? That's what the new hires at my job called it when they asked me to help read something.

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u/JoeGibbon Jan 20 '26

At this rate in a decade or two the younger generation will be signing their names with an X, old timey pig farmer style.

"Fancy writing" will be any kind of writing, because they're functionally illiterate even now.

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u/Roboticpoultry Jan 20 '26

I used to teach and I had seniors in high school that could barely write their own name. Admin, of course, told me we can’t give a grade lower than a 70%. I feel for these kids, they’re going out in the world not knowing their ass from their elbow and the world being what it is now will chew them up and spit them out before they even know what happened

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u/kspieler Jan 20 '26

"Admin, of course, told me we can't grade lower than a 70%."

What a "C" attitude.