Another question from a beginner

Hi everyone, I just started learning Simplified and I was wondering how long it would take to get good.  I know it’s a vague question, and that everyone picks this up at different speeds, but if I practiced for about an hour a day, when do you think I could take a dictation at a…

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Selling duplicate Gregg books?

Hi, group. I’ve gone through my Gregg collection and sorted out a number of duplicates.  Any thoughts about the best way of selling them?  What would people think about posting in this group?  (I also have two Speedwriting texts, and some Forkner texts).  I also have some duplicate numbers of the Gregg Writer, from 1917 through…

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Help Requested

Hello I just jined this community to request some assistance with a shorthand note I can not decypher.  I am not at all familiar with shorthand, so it has become a problem during my attempts to try and figure out the words from this note.  It was written by my Mom who was a shorthand…

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ann:

Why dosn’t ‘season’ look like this  ?  In 52. The Ses sign – is it just a suffix?  (by i-gmail for everyone)  

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Freakish and other things

“… few stenomaskers. Freakish things.” (see post 24 of “Levels of Gregg”) Andrew, a sharp little bias there? Go to the National Verbatim Reporters Association website for some interesting reading about speech recognition software and court reporting. Military courts in the US and Canada have used stenomask reporters for about 50 years — and the…

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Slope and handwriting

One reason I liked Pitman, is that it is so much more suited to my modern Italic syle of handwriting.  I write my letters without a curcsive sland and have been doing that since highschool. I think when John Gregg said that the Gregg shorthand system follows the natural slope, he was refering to the…

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Beginners Practicing

In one of my various texts, is suggests that for practice, you write the outline of a word on top of the word in the newspaper — does anyone actually do this? One of the shorthand sites has a similar kind of thing, and I forget which: You print out a sheet which has a…

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