Most people have typewriters and can type well prefer to type 【M1】______ their letters no

wadays. There was a feeling a generation ago that typewriting was not quite proper in social correspondence, but, in the United States at least, the prejudice of typewriting much social 【M2】______ correspondence has disappeared. Many people, as a matter of fact, prefer that letters written to them to be prepared on the typewriter, 【M3】______ since it makes them easier to read. Typewriting becomes fashionable with the development of social patterns. Mark Twain is reputed to being the worlds first 【M4】______ author to use a typewriter. His manuscript. for Life on the Mississippi arrived at the publisher neatly set down in typewritten form. On the 【M5】______ other hand, the objections to the typewriter are that it is less personal and that it suggests that the writer was too much of a hurry to sit 【M6】______ down and write in longhand. Ones handwriting is in some ways as much an expression of his personality like his voice, and in 【M7】______ correspondence between friends a great deal of the writer is missing if he uses a typewriter. Therefore, the typewriter is often avoided in letters which express friend and personal sentiments. 【M8】______ However, the typewriter had become so popular that the Remington Company received a letter from Mark Twain, which today seems most ironic: "I have stopped using the Type-Writer, for the reason that I never could write a letter with it to anybody with 【M9】______ receiving a request by return mail that I would not describe the 【M10】______ machine but also state what progress I had made in using it, etc. I dont like to write letters, so I dont want people to know that I own this curiosity breeding little joker."

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