Speedwriting

I’m curious if anyone in this group has any experience learning and using Speedwriting.  It’s always kind of appealed to me, but the few times I’ve looked at it it seems like there are some logical problems with the system.  (For example, retaining the letter “c” which has no phonetic value).  Did the Speedwriting system…

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Temporary Documents Section

I am very sorry that the Documents section is still on the fritz.  Until it is fixed, keep in mind that you can attach documents to your posts.  I am attaching one here–try stretching it across your desktop background for some stenografun! ___________________ Praise the Lord, I saw the light line! (by johnsapp for everyone)…

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Which Gregg for Journalism?

When I briefly worked as a journalist a couple of years ago, at a small, regional newspaper in the midwest, I was surprised to discover that very few journalists knew how to write shorthand. I’ll be getting back into that field next fall so I thought I’d look into shorthand and give myself about eight…

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Does anyone know what version of Gregg I’ve been learning?

Hi all, Very happy to have found this resource!  I started learning recently from sheafs (excerpts) taken off the internet, and find it fascinating.   Keen to thoroughly learn the language, and think I’ve gone far enough to warrant picking out a proper book, but I have no idea which version of Gregg I am (half-way through) learning.  One…

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Practice Practice Practice

Just wanted to let you all know that I studied like half a lesson last night, which gives me the authority to be over-posting today. Yea, so I am a small step closer to actually finishing the Simplified manual. __________________________Praise the Lord, I saw the light line! (by johnsapp for everyone)  

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Wowser

Wow, check out the super-cool girl who just joined yesterday–Blah2453. I think she’s everyone here’s dream girl (even Brian). Get this: she studies German AND the classics, and loves Nutella! Oh yea, and she’s Canadian, which seems to be a popular thing with us recently. Man, Blah2453, if only you played accordion… ___________________________Shorthand: isn’t it…

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