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[deft thunder]

Please be patient

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[sage epoch]

I feel like "taper" by itself without a reference to a keyboard would be ambiguous. And on top of that, yes taper is the physical action of hitting keys on a keyboard, without the idea of it being a coherent message. "Écrire" is the better term to use in this context

[south pelican]

Is "taper" more usually used to mean to hit something without any other context then? Like if someone meant to use typing to mean classify and said "[X] is typing" almost anyone would first assume they mean at a keyboard?

[torpid shoal]

think of it like the verb "to press"
if I said "I am pressing", I'd need to tell you what I'm pressing, a button? a key on a keyboard? a key on a piano?

it's the same in French for taper
depending on what you're doing the action to, context makes clear the meaning