The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
A thoughtful essay on the various uses of our hands, here transcribed in Simplified Gregg by yours truly.
Attachment: the-uses-of-the-hand.pdf
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If the hand m u n e f e s e nt e
I lift up my hand and g-a-f
P-n-t it with w-o-n and h-u (I suspect those are official phrases and brief forms that I forgot)
Once again, reading your racing he's made me look critically at my own.
Your M and MN are much longer than mine. That throws me off when I read, but I think it's more readable than mine once I'm used to it. Your B, V, J, are all longer as well. I think it's because you double space, and I still object to using the extra paper. The result is less readable, and slower because I have to be more precise.
For prose, even written larger, a line of Gregg is almost two lines of long hand. It'smore wasteful for point form, 5 words every other line instead of five words each line, but paper is cheap.
Thanks again for interesting reading in a different hand.
1. munificently
2. "I lift up my hand and gaze upon it with wonder and awe." For "gaze", I write two marks so that you don't read "gas": one for the vowel and another for the z. For "awe", notice that the dot position is under the vowel, and not above, so it is not an h (which goes above), but a diacritical mark to clarify the pronunciation of the vowel (so that you don't say "of", "off", "oh", "owe").
I gave up too soon on everything but munificently. Even then, I should have trusted myself. The words sounded vaguely familiar, but not familiar enough.
Grrr. Your writing has made me look critically at my own. It's very hard to see my entire post on the tablet.
Why don't you post a small paragraph with your own writing so that we can take a look?