Did the Language Make Any Accommodations for the Typewritten Age?

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Did the language itself have to make any accommodations for the typewritten age? Like, were there certain characters that you couldn't write. If you're sitting down at the equivalent of an i b m typewriter write, and you're writing a letter in that way, do you end up.? Did you into writing in a different way than you would have if you're doing it by hand? I'm very el telting a trade off.

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