Conversations suddenly go upwards?

Has something changed in the groups? The conversations always used to flow downwards, the way you would read a book – so the newest entries were at the bottom. Sometime today, they seemed to change and now flow upwards, with the newest entries at the top. Caused me to miss some new comments at first,…

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Worlds Collide

My husband was watching Ultimate Fighting. (He doesn’t complain about me learning shorthand,…) He said the translator for a Chinese fighter was writing shorthand to help her remember between listening and translating, about 50 words at a time. Yes, possibly it’s just a short-term memory-aid rather than shorthand she expects to read years later, but…

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Donation of Shorthand Materials

Andrew Owen forwarded me the following email from a charity organization requesting donations of beginner Gregg shorthand books. If you can donate for this cause, the contact information is below. === Hello Andrew: I am an ambassador for Gregg Shorthand, even though I am now retired from business and industry. I learned Gregg from 1965…

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Online course through UniversalClass.com

While looking around, I found an online course offered in Gregg Shorthand: http://www.universalclass.com/i/crn/33894.htm . From the description, they’re teaching Simplified (though the “Recommended Books” section lists a Centennial book… but the Syllabus has the Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified in its “Course Materials” section). Costs are $45 for the course if you don’t need a certificate,…

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Alice In Wonderland reproduced for about $8

I just received a copy of Alice for about $8 on Amazon…if you’re looking for a copy in “paper-form” instead of digital, it will get the job done for a fraction of a “real copy” Didn’t know if anyone would be interested in this or not, but the scans used are Georgie Gregg Gingell plates….

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Gregg Newsletter – January 1949

This excerpt from the January 1949 issue of the Gregg Newsletter shows the proposed brief forms in the new version of Gregg Shorthand that was to be released after Anniversary. It has some resemblance to Simplified Gregg, but it looks more like an Anniversary brief forms list. Attachment: gregg-newsletter-jan49-brief-forms-new-course.pdf

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A List of Changes in the New Gregg Shorthand Manual

This booklet was published in 1949 to acquaint teachers of shorthand with the changes in the Simplified series and manual, as compared to the Anniversary edition. It details the changes in the areas of presentation of material, principles of the system, brief forms, phrasing, and miscellaneous rules. While the material may not be that useful…

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Dictation Files — anyone using them?

Is anyone using the Simplified files? Will anyone but me be disappointed if the project isn’t finished? I’m tempted to restart the project with Anniversary material. It’s online, so with any luck I can use OCR to get the text files. There’s also much more learning material available. For those who want the Simplified project…

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