Our Vacation Trip

The following selection appeared in the December 1912 issue of The Gregg Writer, as an exercise in geographical expressions. Can you write in shorthand all of the places listed in the passage? Our Vacation Trip My friend and I, having planned a long vacation, decided to make a tour of the United States. Our starting…

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Dictation Files are up, GSF2

Here they are: Gregg Simplified Functional 2nd Edition https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0Bzl8w6VxVz_Eem0ySXMxaDB5VDg/edit I’m not sure if they’ll stay there. I can’t see how much disk space they use. Everyone should be able to see them.

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Constructive Critiquing

Hi Everyone, I am uploading a practice sheet I did today. I purposefully erased the longhand word for each column that I was practicing in order to see if anyone can make out any of the words I’ve written. Mind you my handwriting is not that good. But, with that aside, I think it will…

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Can you decipher this message?

The following message was written in code. Can you decode it? Om s trvrmy Htrhh Eroyrt. O mpyovrf yjr p;f dsuomh. #P½½ptyimoyu lmpvld niy pmvr/# O jrstf om s hppf ;rvyitr s djpty yo,r sgyrtestf yjsy yjod od pmr pg yjr ,pdy rttpmrpid smf jst,gi; dysyr,rmyd rbrt ,sfr/ Smf yjod dytivl jp,r eoyj ,r@ yjsy…

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Incorrect WPM for Computer Dictation Files

The good news is I’m not struggling with my target speed. I’m struggling with 10wpm faster. The bad news is the time listed in the titles for at last some of the computer-speech files is wrong. So, I strongly suggest you do a bit of math with the time of each file and the word…

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Up to date phrases

Didn’t you ever notice how out dated some of the phrases are in Gregg shorthand readings or fundamental drills? Don’t get me wrong; I respect Gregg shorthand as an ingenious system. However, why would I have to learn how to recognize, read, and write the phrase “Let me hear from you” when I’m never going…

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Pangrams

Pangrams are sentences that contain all of the letters of the English alphabet. Perhaps the most famous pangram is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Here are some others: 1. John quickly extemporized five town bags. 2. Frowzy quacks vex, jump and blight. 3. Quack! glad zephyrs, wave my javelin box. and…

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