Internet Archive Down

In case you didn’t know, the Internet Archive (archive.org, openlibrary.org, and the Wayback Machine) suffered a major cyberattack a few days ago. For that reason, if you’re trying to access materials from those sites, you may not be able to do so. They expect to restore full service in a few days, so hopefully this…

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Blog Access Issues

For the next week or so, we will have intermittent access issues to the blog due to server upgrades. So if you try to access the blog during an “unlucky time”, please try again later on. I will keep everyone updated when everything is back to normal using this post. I apologize for this inconvenience….

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Random Questions from a Newcomer

I’ve long had an interest in shorthand, because it seemed like a magical power to write quickly in (to other people) gibberish squiggles. But nothing ever came of it (because I’ve long had interests in dozens of other things). Hopefully, I can learn it now. I’m starting the Functional manual for Anniversary (from archive.org). I…

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Gregg shorthand adaptations to other languages?

Hello, I was looking for resources and manuals for Gregg shorthand adaptations to other languages, specifically the languages Afrikaans, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Thai, and Tagalog (these languages were mentioned on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_shorthand#Adaptations). I’ve managed to find some materials for Chinese, Esperanto, French, German,…

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Why not um, eng, ing, ung, enk, ink?

In Gregg Pre-Anniversary, it says that en, in, un, em, and im at the start of a word (when it occurs before a consonant) is simply expressed without the vowel (as simply n or m). Why does this not apply to “um,” like in umbrella? Further, why not apply this to ng and nk with…

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Forkner Shorthand?

Do you know of anyone who could transcribe Forkner? Recently there was a post on my community Facebook page, asking for someone who could transcribe Forkner shorthand.  It seems that after the passing of his mother, the man found many years of her journals written in Forkner.  He would like to have them transcribed so…

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42 native or common elementary sounds

Does this study about the 42 elementary English sound bring us further? F. e. in the (classification) rubrication of the vowel sounds. The document is larger than 2 mb so I can’t upload it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mk5l1yuy9n4nhmj/42%20english%20sounds.png?dl=0 out: SEVEN THOUSAND WORDS OFTE N MISPRONOUNCED A COMPLETE HAN DBOOK OF DIFFICU LTI ES I N ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION INCLUDING…

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Ethics of Transcribing Shorthand for Others

I’m curious what others think about transcribing, say, journals and letters written in shorthand for someone who isn’t the original owner of those items.  We sometimes see pleas for such help.  Do you think it’s ethical?  Obviously, such persons who take the trouble to write a journal or letter in shorthand most likely have a…

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