French: “La croissance exponentielle“
Hello, here is an except from a French translation of “The Limits to Growth, the 30-Year Update”. (The author of this little tale would be the mathematician Robert Lattès.)
Differences in Pre-Anniversary texts
In the Facebook Gregg Shorthand group, someone posted a graphic with some words that didn’t make any sense. One of the members tracked down the source, and it turned out to be a sentence from the Pre-Anniversary manual that had been cut in half and put back together with part of the text missing, so…
Améliorer son vocabulaire
Here is small selection transcribed in Sténographie Gregg by yours truly for the blog (both in Anniversary and Simplified). Attachment: améliorer-son-vocabulaire-anniv.pdf Attachment: améliorer-son-vocabulaire-simpl.pdf
Diamond Jubilee, Series 90, and Centennial Gregg: A Comparison
With the introduction of the Diamond Jubilee Series (DJS) in 1963, Louis Leslie expanded on the simplifications that were introduced by him in 1949 in the Simplified Series (discussed here and in my comment here), based on analysis obtained from actual notes written from dictation by students and stenographers. The addition of more simplifications to…
Some Random Thoughts
From The Wilderness World of John Muir, here are some random thoughts about nature in general by the Scottish-born American naturalist, author, philosopher, botanist, and zoologist, transcribed by yours truly in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: some-random-thoughts.pdf
The USS Nautilus: A Revolution in Sea Travel
The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), sharing its name with Captain Nemo’s fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine. It was the first to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on August 3, 1958. Decommissioned in 1980, it is…
The Feline Monarch of Asia
Here is a small article about tigers, transcribed by me in Simplified Gregg. Attachment: the-feline-monarch-of-asia.pdf
Penmanship Practice – June 2023
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Comparing Theories – Spencerian Penmanship and Gregg Shorthand
I was revisiting the theory of Spencerian Penmanship recently. It is an ornamental penmanship and its golden age was about 1850-1925. In the theory there is much emphasis put on on Position, Movement, and Form. There is emphasis even on the degree of slant of the pen! In comparing Gregg Shorthand theory to it, there…
“Diamond Jubilee Series: A Presentation of System Changes”
A few years ago there was a PDF copy on line of this booklet that was published for DJS. I printed a copy of it, but can’t find the original PDF. Was it in this group? Does anyone remember where it was posted? It was nicely scanned and formatted so I was able to print…