SHORTHAND – VARIATIONS ON SPEED TRAINING
Attachment: VARIATIONS ON SHORTHAND SPEED PRACTICE – 01.doc (by Waldir for group greggshorthand)
Mad Men shorthand
My friend posted this on my facebook asking if I could read it. It’s a screen cap of Mad Men (TV show) and the guy is supposedly taking notes in shorthand. It looks like gibberish to me but I came up with (mind you I had been drinking a little): did owing not charge [CHTR]inform…
Group Cleanup
In the past few years, our group has increased considerably in size (yippee!). However, some users have never posted nor lurked in the site. For that reason, I will be cleaning up the roster from users that have not posted or read the postings for over a year. Not to worry: if your access is…
Another soldier passes
An obituary of Mrs. Patricia Carmody, believed to have been the last shorthand court reporter in Michigan. She was a Gregg writer, the dates placing her in the Anniversary school. Court worker wielded mighty pen She was awarded the Golden Notes Award by the National Court Reporters Association in recognition of her many years of…
Digitizing Books in Gregg Shorthand
I tried to post all of the links and details here, but this site won’t let me post everything. Here is a Facebook page link to work that I did to get a few Gregg Shorthand books digitized from library collections. So far, I paid to digitize: –The Sign of the Four (1919? The only…
A helping (short)hand needed
Dear friends, there is an obstacle again to my mastering the fundamentals of Anniversary Gregg, marked with red in the attached file. Aid of any sort will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff (by Gleb for group greggshorthand)
The Eagle Has Landed
In commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the landing on the moon, I took an interesting article from the February 2006 issue of Boys’ Life, the official magazine of the Boy Scouts, and penned it in Anniversary. Neil Armstrong was an Eagle scout, so the article gives a new meaning to the phrase “The Eagle…
Request for assistance
Dear group members, as a newcomer to this wonderfully useful group and an absolute beginner in studying the system of Gregg Shorthand, I need to ask you a relatively simple question which, however, causes me trouble since I still haven’t been able to come up with a satisfactory answer. I am now studying the Anniversary…
IBM Keyboards
I ran into this NPR piece about the classic IBM Model M keyboards, probably the best keyboard ever built, as they were very solid. If you don’t recognize the name, these are the ones with the clickety sound everytime you press a key. Although IBM stopped producing these in the 90’s, there is a company…
Congressional Record Vocabulary
A small pamphlet published in 1936 with useful shortcuts and phrases often heard in Congressional testimony; written in Anniversary, though they can be used in all series. Attachment: congressional-record-vocabulary.pdf