Shorthand in the (Computer) News

I accidentally erased this post about a lady stenographer in Germany. The original link is from this article in German. Phil was kind enough to translate it, so Phil, if you can, can you repost it? If not, the Google translation using Chrome is good enough. Below is the literal Google translation: Faster than the…

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The Twinkling of an Eye

This story by the American author and educator Brander Mathews was published in 1896 in his book Tales of Fantasy and Fact. It was written in pre-anniversary and serialized in the September 1928 to January 1929 issues of The Gregg Writer. The transcript can be found here (courtesy of Project Gutenberg). Attachment: the-twinkling-of-an-eye.pdf

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Anniversary Edition help?

I’m going through the Anniversary edition of Gregg, and am on Unit 11, exercise 103, and I’m stumped. Could someone give me a hand? The sentence seems like it says: We shall expect you to bring your report to a special committee meeting this evening rather than send it … … do. Thanks for any…

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Vowel mark sighting

On p. 15 of _Supplementary Exercises in Gregg Shorthand_ (1918) There is the following drill sentence : “The tenant says that he will have the lease signed and sent to us tomorrow.”  The word ‘lease’ is written as l-e-s, with the acute mark below the e, apparently to distinguish the outline from ‘letters’. This is…

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