Any Eclectic Shorthand Writers in the Forum?

I received the following email. If you’re interested, please let me know and I will connect you with Connor. ————— When looking searching for sources related to eclectic shorthand I found this ancient conversation: http://gregg-shorthand.com/2005/09/25/cross-eclectic-shorthand/ I want to learn eclectic shorthand and extend it to include tonal speech as well as convert the theory to…

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Teaching Children Shorthand?

I’m a homeschooling parent.  I learned the Diamond Jubilee version of shorthand when I was in high school back in the 80’s.  Thanks to this blog, I was introduced to Notehand and Greghand, which I’d never heard of before.  I bought the Notehand book and was delighted to find out that it teaches note-taking skills…

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two notes about Gregg Simplified

• Textbook’s 60th Anniversary According to Amazon, June 1st will be the 60th anniversary of the publication of Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified – second edition. It’s extraordinary that this book is still in print 60 years later. And it’s often #1 or #2 in Amazon USA’s Business & Money > Skills > Secretarial Aids &…

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Criticisms and Analyses

The Louis Leslie Collection at Rider University includes a Pitmanite response to Gregg shorthand under the title An American Light Liner. In attempting to assert “the supremacy of Pitman’s Shorthand,” the author(s?) provide some unintended comic relief in their summary of purpose on page 5: It is the main object of this critique to show…

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