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This beautiful legend behind the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Altar in Heaven in the heart of Rome is brought to us by Selma Lagerlöf as part of her book Christ Legends. I transcribed it in Anniversary Gregg for the blog.
Attachment: the-emperors-vision.pdf
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A rather strange legend of Christ’s birth. And I found the geography a little hard to follow. But I rather breezed through it (despite words like thee, thou, hither, thither) driven on by a feeling of “I wonder what next strange thing will occur before we get to the crux”. (I don’t remember seeing that basilica when I went to Rome.)
But there are 3 outlines I could not fix upon
p2c2 l13 last outline
p6c1 l5 second outline “so ??”
p8c1 l18 last outline “mountain ??”
And three guesses
p2c2 l15 is the second outline “genus”? The word’s a bit unusual.
p5c2 l23 presumably she-did-not-know. I don’t think I’d seen “not-know” like that before
p8c2 l17 I was unsure but I suppose the second outline was “big”
And two points of difference
p4c2 l8 I write “forehead” with the f JOINED
p5c1 l12 I write “hurry” h-u-r-e (I had “corrected” it in my dictionary). Not doubt it’s a matter of pronunciation, but “furrow” (the same “u” sound) uses a u (p8c2 l1)
And I wonder if these are mistakes or my misunderstanding
p4c2 l17 I would have put the ING in happening
p6c1 l4 Should it be “But HIS hands”?
p8c2 l21 is it “you should be worhipING”?
(I also noticed that in this transcription the number of end-of-sentences which appeared at the end of lines was far greater than usual. A strange coincidence. Perhaps this text had shorter sentences than usual.)
And I did not get any email notifications of this December set.
Here we go:
p2c2 l13 last outline: “in the matter”
p2c2 l15: “genius”
p4c2 l8: The rule is to disjoin for/fore before a vowel. See the footnote to paragraph 170 of the Anniversary manual and paragraph 126 on page 105 of the second edition of Gregg Speed Studies.
p4c2 l17: -ing dot was added.
p5c1 l12: Check paragraph 11 on page 1 of the 5000 Most-Used Shorthand Forms book. They decided to use the vowel in that word.
p5c2 l23: Yes, “she did not know.”
p6c1 l4: corrected.
p6c1 l5 second outline “so ??”: “benumbed”
p8c1 l18 last outline “mountain ??”: “height” (I had read “white.”)
p8c2 l17: “And the sybil’s big, knotty fingers …”
p8c2 l21: “There is the god who shall be worshiped on Capitol Hill!”
I had not noticed about the length of the sentences, but I checked and yes, they’re short for the most part.
Thanks Carlos.
Looking at both the manual and speed studies I see I’ll have to correct “forehead”. And also in all the other for/fore-vowel words I’ll have to remember that rule which I’d missed or forgotten. I suppose the same would apply to “forever” which I’ve been writing as f-e-v all joined.
As for “hurry”, I realise it’s what is presented (so early in the 5000 most used phrases) but I’ll still use h/u-r-e as that is how I say it (and I think it’s quicker).
You’re welcome! Yes, “forever” follows the same rule. Incidentally, the rule applies to all series of Gregg.