Longhand Down, Shorthand Up?

GeneralCarlos23 July 20074

With the decline of teaching cursive longhand in schools, is it too much to wonder whether cursive shorthand might replace it?

My brainstorm for today.

Cheers,

Don Ramsey

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Lee 23 November 2025 at 4:19 am on Types of notebooksThat's amazing detective work! Lots of glimpses into a world that doesn't exist any more. I had to look up
Erik 22 November 2025 at 9:14 pm on Types of notebooksThere is also this snippet from 1849 Reporter's Companion (Pitman's system) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnyx7a&seq=19 which suggests from the method of page turning
Erik 22 November 2025 at 8:51 pm on Types of notebooksAh interesting. My memory is once again spotty but IIRC correctly OP had claimed to be associated with some sort
Lee 22 November 2025 at 7:15 pm on Types of notebooksThat's the same image that someone asked about in the "Shorthand Writing" Facebook group. I don't think it's authentically from
Carlos 22 November 2025 at 2:59 pm on Types of notebooksNo worries, Erik. I edited the post. Images can only be embedded in comments by using links.
Erik 22 November 2025 at 1:06 pm on Types of notebooksHmm, it seems like I messed up the embedding and I can't figure out how to edit a post. Direct
Erik 22 November 2025 at 1:02 pm on Types of notebooksIf the Internet is to be believed, spiral bound notebooks like the standard steno pad didn’t appear until the 1920s
Carlos 20 November 2025 at 4:31 pm on Types of notebooksThat would make sense.
Carlos 19 November 2025 at 3:43 pm on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingYou're welcome!
Nicholas Salkilld 19 November 2025 at 3:18 pm on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingThanks Carlos. (I'd forgotten that people could be very strict and "moral" in earlier times.)
Carlos 19 November 2025 at 12:56 pm on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingThanks for the corrections. Prudence worked in the theater, and that was not considered a very reputable occupation for a
Nicholas Salkilld 19 November 2025 at 7:38 am on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingInteresting. The nature of Prudence's badness was not explained but I think that being part of a theatre is not
Lee 19 November 2025 at 4:02 am on Types of notebooksI did a couple of Ebay searches for "antique reporter's notebook" and "antique stenographer's notebook" and a few things showed
Lee 18 November 2025 at 9:51 am on Types of notebooksI've read through lots of old issues of The Gregg Writer over the years, and don't recall any discussions about