typewriter 的詞源
typewriter(n.)
「機械書寫印刷的機器,通過排列以一個接一個地打擊移動紙張的字母印刷」,1868年在專利申請中出現,來自 type (n.) + writer。
It is the advantage of the typewriter that, due to its rigidity and its space precisions, it can, for a poet, indicate exactly the breath, the pauses, the suspensions even of syllables, the juxtapositions even of parts of phrases, which he intends. For the first time the poet has the stave and the bar a musician has had. For the first time he can, without the convention of rime and meter, record the listening he has done to his own speech and by that one act indicate how he would want any reader, silently or otherwise, to voice his work. [Charles Olson, "Projective Verse," 1950]
打字機的優勢在於,由於其剛性和空間精確性,對於詩人來說,它可以準確地指示他所意圖的呼吸、停頓、音節的懸停,甚至是短語部分的並置。詩人第一次擁有了音樂家所擁有的五線譜和小節。詩人第一次可以在不遵循韻律和格律的情況下,記錄他對自己語言的聆聽,並通過這一行為指示任何讀者,無論是默讀還是其他方式,如何表達他的作品。[查爾斯·奧爾森,《創作詩》,1950年]
它的舊俚語名稱之一是 office-piano (1942年)。
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