AngelaM, Author at Gregg Shorthand

A Beautiful Example of Gregg in a 1928 Yearbook Entry

GeneralAngelaM21 May 202010

And look, no lines!

Really Bad Penmanship – Need Help with Translation

GeneralAngelaM29 April 20206

This is a real head scratcher. The writer is now deceased. She learned shorthand back in the 1940s. When she wrote this, she was experiencing a very difficult time in her life. That’s the extent of the information I have. Here’s my best effort at translation so far. Any assistance would be appreciated: maybe need…

Two Outlines That Stubbornly Defy My Efforts to Translate – Any Ideas?

GeneralAngelaM5 April 202010

This is a portion of a letter written in 1949 from one sister to another the day after the recipient of the letter gave birth to a little girl. This cropped portion is at the end of a long section addressing childbirth, breastfeeding, etc. I am having trouble translating the two outlines underlined in blue….

Stuck in Translation … Ugh!

Anything GoesAngelaM10 February 20206

So, these are minutes of two county housing authority meetings. I’ve figured out most of it, but a few stubborn blanks remain. Can anybody help? (The pic is the best I can do – the originals are very faint). For the first one, I get: “Notes: ___ contract for the next fiscal year ____.” (I…

Mystery Post-It Notes

GeneralAngelaM5 February 202018

These two Post-It notes were recently found on a cork/bulletin board in the office/sewing room of an 88-year-old woman’s home. It is believed she learned shorthand in her late teens/early 20’s …so 1950’s. They appear to be reminders of where she had placed certain important items in her home. I’ve been able to decipher some of…

Stuck in Translation

Anything GoesAngelaM21 January 20206

This diary was written in 1940. She wrote stuff in shorthand that she didn’t want her mom to know about (lol – didn’t we all?) She’s writing about a married man who’s been sniffing around her, taking her for rides and giving her small gifts. On this date, the man (Mr. Carver) took her to…

Miniature Shorthand Book signed by Gregg

GeneralAngelaM22 November 20192

I recently came across this adorable miniature Gregg Shorthand book, signed by the man himself. I’m going to be selling it, as I know there are folks out there who collect Gregg signed books. But I wanted to share it with the blog first. I had no idea there were miniature Gregg books published!

Carlos 30 May 2020 at 9:45 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéYes, you can do that: write all your questions in one post if you wish. It doesn't bother me one
Carlos 30 May 2020 at 9:42 am on Con-, Com-, Co prefixesThe nasal pronunciation (kɔ̃, whether spelled out com/con) is always k. For the open o pronunciation (kɔ) + m/n, you
Aymeric de Poyen 30 May 2020 at 9:35 am on Ascending and descending strokesThank you Carlos, it was more straighforward than I thought. I wrongly understood that N, M, K, G, R, L
Aymeric de Poyen 30 May 2020 at 9:29 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéThank you Carlos, it’s all clear now. Regarding the discussion above with Christine, do you think I should just open
Aymeric de Poyen 30 May 2020 at 9:25 am on Con-, Com-, Co prefixesRight, thanks Carlos, so I did get it wrong. So in phonetic terms : -[kõn] est représenté par k seulement,
Carlos 30 May 2020 at 9:24 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéYikes! No, no need for that second circle in Paragraph 243. SME added it in DJS to be ultra correct.
Carlos 30 May 2020 at 9:02 am on Ascending and descending strokesForward Consonants (écrites de l'avant): N, M, R, L, G, and K + blends (LD, RD, men) Upward Consonants (écrites
Carlos 30 May 2020 at 8:41 am on Gregg vs Pitman “font” sizeMartin Dupraw wrote Gregg at 280 wpm, and his notes are very big (some may say huge). So no, in
Carlos 30 May 2020 at 8:33 am on Con-, Com-, Co prefixesThe rule is only for kon/kom as stated, not for ko in general. (For example, you write the o in
Eli 30 May 2020 at 7:17 am on Gregg Shorthand Book CoversI picked up a few things off of eBay that aren't on this list for the 1916 pre-anniversary edition - the
Aymeric de Poyen 30 May 2020 at 4:55 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéEffectivement, et j’ai aussi remarqué que tu es très sensible à la beauté du trait et au contour d’ensemble des
Christine Ruzik 30 May 2020 at 4:31 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéJ'ai compris que nos approches étaient différentes, Aymeric, sans doute en ce qui me concerne parce qu'en Sénécal, il est
Aymeric de Poyen 30 May 2020 at 1:57 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéThanks Christine! I work differently, I tend to be a perfectionist and I always want to be absolutely sure that
Christine Ruzik 30 May 2020 at 1:42 am on French DJS: -tivité and -sivitéI swear I never ask myself so many questions as you do and yet I have to 'create' a lot
Aymeric de Poyen 30 May 2020 at 12:04 am on Con-, Com-, Co prefixesThank you Carlos, this phrasing is more concise, however, I think it still doesn’t beat mine, if mine is indeed
Carlos 29 May 2020 at 10:00 pm on ang- / eng- in French DJSActually, incl- was introduced in the July 1910 issue of The Gregg Writer as a new prefix, and was later
lvw 29 May 2020 at 9:22 pm on ang- / eng- in French DJSI have considerable sympathy for Aymeric's question. After all, Gregg shorthand isn't really committed to following etymologies and separating prefixes
Carlos 29 May 2020 at 6:12 pm on ang- / eng- in French DJSIn the first edition manual (Liverpool, 1888), ng was expressed by the long horizontal line of the men blend, and
Carlos 29 May 2020 at 5:20 pm on Con-, Com-, Co prefixesHow about this instruction? Will it be clearer? "Les préfixes con-, com- sont ordinairement représentés par k seulement ; mais
Aymeric de Poyen 29 May 2020 at 4:01 pm on ang- / eng- in French DJSThanks again Carlos. Did Dr. Gregg explain why he came up with those signs if their use is extremely limited?

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