Gregg Shorthand Dictionary
I made an online dictionary for Gregg Shorthand. It is available here: gregg.surge.sh. It currently only supports Gregg simplified, but I made add additional series of Gregg if people find it useful.
A speedbuilding technique
This is an article from 2009 from a world record holder on his speedbuilding technique: 360 Words Per Minute World Record Holder Shares Methods By Mark Kislingbury Mark Kislingbury, the setter of the Guinness World Record of 360 words per minute with 97.22% accuracy, shares his methods. “What does this champion speed writer say about…
Gregg vs Pitman “font” size
Hello, I am a member of a Facebook shorthand group dominated by Indian and Pakistani Pitman practitioners. They often post Pitman texts and their longhand equivalent in two columns side by side on the same page, and I am always struck by how condensed Pitman looks, taking up less than half of the space needed…
Ascending and descending strokes
Hello, I’m really sorry, I know this has already been covered but for the life of me I can’t find where! I just wanted to be sure about the distinction between ascending (or do you say upward) and descending (downward?) strokes. Upward: T, D, R, L ? Downward: S, CH, J, F, V, B, P,…
French DJS: -tivité and -sivité
Hello, 1/I was wondering why the penultimate i-circle is kept in the -tivité ending. Is it to avoid possible confusion with “-vier”/”vié”, the ye sign being difficult to curve neatly after V? or is there no specific reason and we could just get rid of that penultimate i-circle? 2/My manual is silent about the -sivité…
French DJS technical questions
Hello, I’m trying to summarize the theory behind choosing right or left S, and it is hellish, because not only are there lots of variables to consider, but also the rules conflict each other and an order of priority has to be determined. To avoid reinventing the wheel, I’d like to know two things. 1/Are…
Con-, Com-, Co prefixes
Hello, Going through a second reading of my French DJS manual, I’m as puzzled as I was during my first reading of the principles governing prefixes con-, com-, conn-, comm-. The author presents the rule in three different paragraphs (160, 161, 162 for you Carlos) and distinguishes 3 cases: *con+consonant/com+consonant *conn-/com- *com+vowel/con+vowel. Why does the…
ang- / eng- in French DJS
Hello, Today I was surprised to discover that words like anglais, angoisse, angle are all written with the slanted N. Yet engager, engraisser, etc. are written with N-G. Why? This is one and the same phonetic syllable. Thanks.
opioid
Hello, I was transcribing a French text on substance abuse and got thrown off by the word opioïde. Since the “io” combination usually looks the same in all words (the i-circle with the o-hook right under it), I wonder how it could be modified to indicate the third and final vowel. I can’t think of…
French DJS: slave trade of old and modern reparations
Here is an attempt at transcribing an article by Magali Bessone on whether or not to offer reparation to the descendants of the victims of slavery. This is only the first part because the text is quite long. Please let me know what you think…