Month: May 2020

They’re both nouns. I’ve been reading philosophy, and some sentences make sense with either. The Simplified dictionary writes them both Lev. Does another version do them differently? If so, I’ll use that. Thanks!  

Hello, Is there a neat way of writing words like Natasha (the name), attachant, attacha (in French)? In my DJS manual, attachant is written with a very long CH so that the first and last A-circles don’t overlap. But then this CH ends up being just as long as a J really. Have you spotted…

And look, no lines!

I couldn’t post this to the discussion about Gregg-ruled paper on Incompetech, so I’ve started a new thread. Not only is the difference between Gregg-ruled and wide-ruled small, but it’s in fact very small, with wide-ruled being the very slightly wider of the two. The difference between 1/3 inch and 11/32 inch is just 1/96…

I’ve been enjoying this forum so much because of the diversity of languages, methods and resources regarding shorthand. I’m 28 years old and I’ve started studying shorthand on April 22nd, 2019, when I finally decided to become a legislative reporter in the Brazilian National Congress. As you might expect, very few people qualify for teaching…

Hello, In a transcription she sent me, my mother wrote the verb demeurer as: dem(blend)-r-e. I’ve never heard of a dem blend in DJS (only din, daine), but this made me wonder why in DJS it is written d-e-m-eu-r-e while: -it starts with de which, granted, is not dé, but is still written without an…

I’ve been communicating with my mum in shorthand for a little while now and we’ve been doing textbook-based transcriptions to refresh her memory. I initially assumed that she learned DJS in both English and French, but I’ve been seeing surprising “mistakes” in her shorthand that sometimes look more like older series than actual mistakes. But…

I’ve very recently completed the Simplified manual, and have been practicing by writing out daily news updates from the Nytimes. Since it’s all that the news is about these days, I’ve run into the word quarantine quite a bit. The simplified dictionary has the word ending with a t-n stroke. Based on the manual, I…