Frick and Vietti, take and make

In Frick and Vietti’s /Talk and Take Gregg Shorthand/, on the last page headed “Short Forms for High Speed Writing” there are some abbreviated forms for highly common words.  Make : m-a;  Take:  t-a;  Taken: t-a-n.  I’m wondering a bit about phrasing possibilities for these, and derivatives.  ‘To make’ should be tm-a, possibly confusable with…

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Vowel mark sighting

On p. 15 of _Supplementary Exercises in Gregg Shorthand_ (1918) There is the following drill sentence : “The tenant says that he will have the lease signed and sent to us tomorrow.”  The word ‘lease’ is written as l-e-s, with the acute mark below the e, apparently to distinguish the outline from ‘letters’. This is…

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A possible exercise?

A long time ago there was mention of a speed-building practice in a thread on the blog: http://gregg-shorthand.com/2008/12/19/methods-of-attacking-shorthand-speed/ (Note: Link to the _Factors of Shorthand Speed_ document now kaputt!) The idea was practicing for a long time without breaks to force the fatiguing muscles to learn how do the work with minimal effort.  I am…

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PreAnni: detached t for ted, ded, ed

I’m curious about an item in the 1916 manual: “At the end of many words, ted, ded, and sometimes ed, may be expressed by t being placed beneath or close to the preceding character.”   (section 53)   The examples given are invited     n-v-i / t divided    dv-i / t demanded    dm-a-n…

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small milestone

So I now find that I have been writing PreAnni for two days.  Two days _in toto_ that is, as I keep a running sum of the time of each learning session.  This is far from exact measure, though, as it includes reading a thing  in the textbooks before writing it.  In trying to minimize…

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