Pitmans 2000

I can’t seem to find someone who knows the answer to this so I’ll try here. Pitman 2000 had a blue book, REPORTING STYLE, which was said to get students from 120 to reporting speed (about 200 wpm). The book only had one printing. Was it successful at accomplishing the goal or did it fail?…

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Endings/Beginnings Study Aid

New study aid in the documents section: http://www.msnusers.com/GreggShorthand/Documents/1916_analogicals.txt It lists all the 1916 analogical endings and beginnings as headers, preceding sections with every matching word which occurs more than twice in the Brown corpus. The matching words are sorted in descending order of frequency, from left to right, prefixed by their number of occurrences in…

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Am I missing something? (Simplified)

Greetings to the group! My name is d’Armond, and I’ve just joined the group.  Like many others, I am interested in acquiring the skill of shorthand.  I find that I take lots of notes in my professional life, plus I think it would be fun. I’m working my way through the 2nd edition (1955 printing)…

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Spanish Gregg

I found some info about Spanish Gregg (http://gregg.angelfishy.net/taquibfs.shtml), but I’m missing a complete description about the Spanish adoption of the system. Does anyone know where I can find more information about Spanish Gregg? Ramses (by tommie짰 for everyone)

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RSI thread ?

hello — I noticed somebody posting about having repetitive strain injury (RSI)….. that is the reason why I am interested in learning shorthand too. I have to take a lot of manual notes so I wanted to try and figure out ways to relieve the stress of that on my arm. It makes me wonder…

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Outline: sexism?

I was wondering how one might write “sexism” in Simplified. The dictionary is curiously lacking of “sex” and “sexism” (artifact of the 50s?), despite its generous inclusion of words like “pieplant” and “loquacity”. I’m thinking that the “sex” part should look similar to “fix”, with maybe just “comma-s m” on the end to avoid trying…

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Reading Speed

My gregg reading speed seems to approximate my writing speed — slow, halting and far from effortless. I find it a bit frustrating that even when I make the effort to write as much as possible in shorthand, the effort to use what I have written seems to negate the advantage of writing speed. You…

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