On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:19:04 -0700, "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:

Anybody who can't pass the minimal 5 WPM doesn't deserve a license.

That's needlessly insulting.

No, it's a statement of historic fact, as determined by the licensing
authorities. But it's incorrct -- anyone who can't copy 5 wpm deserves a
license, but it's Citizen's Band.

A further valid statement would be that anyone with an IQ approaching 100 can
learn to copy 5 wpm. That's less than one character every two seconds, which
gives tons of time to recognize and write the single character before the next
one begins. Dyslexia cannot apply, unless it is dyslexia that affects the
remembered dot/dash pattern of a single character.

-- Larry