Study Buddies Logs

Ages ago I asked about study buddies. I’m thinking bloggish. Things we’ve noticed or had troubles with that we can’t share with non-shorthand people, and would bore those who have more experience. I am often online between 10 and 2 on school days, Toronto time zone (EST), but I don’t hang out in chat rooms…

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Question about Simplified

Hi Guys! I’m diving back into my shorthand studies. I’m just starting Lesson 3 from the Gregg Simplified 2nd Ed. manual and had a question. Later in the manual do they ever get to telling you how to decipher the distinct pronounciation of the vowel? Like the shorthand writing of a-d, it can be pronounced…

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Indistinguishable outlines?

From Fundamental Drills, Anni edition. Para 43 has: The children e-r h-e-r e-s-t In this case, it’s pretty clear it should be “were here yesterday”, but in the case of “the jewels”, could it be “were her estate”, or “were in her estate” if one is allowed to drop “in” from the phrase. Or is…

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A gentle reminder about posting rules

This note is to remind users about the two rules of the group and explain what is meant by them. To preserve the Gregg Shorthand Group’s fertility as a greenhouse for diverse ideas, the only requirement is that posts are (1) relevant and (2) kind. What do we mean by relevant? Posts in the General section are those…

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Need some help

I’m not sure what happened, but suddenly I’m not getting any e-mails from the group.  It worked fine about Tuesday, then suddenly, nothing.  I’ve checked my settings with the group and it’s checked that I should get daily e-mails.  Does anyone have any idea what may have happened? Tommie  (by freebird65832 for everyone)

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Videos about shorthand

Searching in “You tube”, I have found many videos of shorthand: Waldir and Taquibras have posted some of them… that are very interesting. Besides, there are some commercials using machine shorthand, for instance, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywjOf030J-Y&mode=related&search= VALO (by valo1969 for everyone)

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translation please?

(by Carlos for everyone)    Moved from General Forum. From: wendyhah  (Original Message) Sent: 9/14/2007 2:11 PM My sister’s good friend from church found this while going through her late mother’s papers. She is curious because it has her birth date on it. My sister used to know Gregg shorthand, but is having a difficult time…

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Shorthand tip from Emma Dearborn

Though she said it in reference to her own invention, Speedwriting, in one of her books from 1927, Emma Dearborn said something that fully applies to Gregg: “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link; and YOUR shorthand is only as good as the most troublesome word in it.” Can you imagine?! Here…

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Computerize dictation

Having a programmer in the house can be handy! Hubby has written an online utility which, combined with a (free) voice synthesizer, will dictate text at the speed you choose. It does this by adding time between the words rather than slowing down the words. (Slowing down the words too much becomes incomprehensible.) http://onebit.ca/cgi-bin/short.py Functional…

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