The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
This system is created in 1943 by Juan Antonio Carissimi Dominguez (Uruguayan). He’s a stenographer and uses Marti system. He kept from the latter the strokes for vowels. He decided to use the division of words into syllables.A syllable in Spanish can be formed by: 1) vowel(s) (ex.: Abarcar)2) consonant + vowel(s) (ex.: BOca)3) consonant…
(by johnsapp for everyone) [Relocated from the General discussion] Reply Recommend Delete Message 1 of 8 in Discussion From: VALO1969 (Original Message) Sent: 12/8/2005 3:10 PM Hi fellows!I have uploaded six files scanned from my Doezis shorthand book. Doezis is the nickname of Rolando S찼nchez, a Chilean stenographer who created two systems of shorthand: Rolsan and Doezis….
Apropos of Marc laughing at me and telling me I should visit the Sprawl to hear people talking fast, I thought you might like to know some of the following. Recently I was told that some people actually speak at 300 words a minute. I do find it hard to believe, but having sped up a…
Greetings everyone! I’m new to shorthand, so I don’t have much to contribute yet, but I wanted to say hello everyone and introduce myself. My first step whenever I have a new interest is to jump online and do a lot of research, so this is my first stop! I’ve been intrigued by shorthand for…
Quite apart from his SpeedWords, Reginald Dutton created a bonafide shorthand system. This is from http://www.geocities.com/newcongress/biography.html [Dutton] felt that Malone’s shorthand system could be improved upon and thus he began the development of his own shorthand system. . . . In 1916 Dutton published his work under the title “Shorthand in Three Days.” He made minor…
There’s a website that endeavors to teach Pitman 2000 in only 15 days. Is this possible with Gregg? If I had the know-how, I might attempt to do this myself. What do you all think? (by georgeamberson1 for everyone)
(by johnsapp for everyone) Relocated from General discussion. From: Alex (Original Message) Sent: 11/18/2005 7:55 AM So what does anyone on this group know about Dutton Speedwords? I just acquired the text by Reginald J.G.Dutton, and it’s fascinating . . . “Ordinary writing at Shorthand Speed”, says the cover. It’s not exactly an alphabetic shorthand system. …
I just obtained the Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified Second Edition. I started the first chapter. I have a couple of questions: what rule of paper should I use? should I keep the outlines between the lines? and I should I focus the center of the outline somewhere (ex. in longhand, words are focused on the bottom…
I was just sitting around going through the lessons in Gregg Simplified, writing outline after outline when my mind started to wander to the Ray Charles album playing in the background. Well I started copying down the lyrics in shorthand and found it to be great fun. The lyrics repeat themselves often so I could…
Since we’re talking about Speedwriting and other alpha systems, does any one know anything about AlphaHand? I have the books but never pursued it. It’s an alpha system based on Pitman and looks pretty good (but not as good as Gregg). 🙂 Marc (by shorthandmarc for everyone)