Shorthand in Russia.
Two interesting videos about the revival of shorthand in Russia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXz3CCRK_e8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wpdqiyVnCE (by Waldir for group greggshorthand)
Spam
Lately, we have been getting a lot of spam in our group. For that reason, I have turned on the Moderation feature for a while. The way it is supposed to work is that the first new message of a person will be screened. Once that happens, newer messages from the same user should not…
Courtroom Reporter’s Notebook
From the Expert Shorthand Speed Course (1945), I finally learned what the vertical columns are for in the actual court reporting notebooks. So I thought I’d try my hand at making a template. After minutely examining the graphics of the several examples, there seemed to be minor variations in how the vertical rules should be…
Longtime secretary for senator dies
An obituary of Doris Lovett, a remarkable woman who was “nearly a half century in the back halls of power.” And her skill as a stenographer evidently played no small role in getting her there. She would have been an Anniversary writer, and: Her Gregg shorthand was “just like it came out of the book, . . .”…
Tag Cloud
I have added a list of tags to the welcome message of the site. In that way, you can search for a specific post by clicking on the tag. Be aware that I haven’t finished tagging old messages, so your search may be incomplete.
eBooks for Shorthand
Do any of you own a reading device such as a Kindle or a Nook, or use an iPad regularly? I would like to hear opinions about advantages and disadvantages, in particular as to how they handle books. Also, has anyone tried to e-publish a book? Can the e-reader formats handle images as a PDF?…
Expert Shorthand Speed Course – Anniversary – at amazon.com
If anyone is looking for the elusive volume, there’s one for sale here under $10: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XSM6N0/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A2VCZLZUW5BXC2
The Career of Charles Lee Swem
There’s a short bio of the great Mr. Swem tucked at the end of a volume entitled A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Speeches of Woodrow Wilson, published in 1956. (The Symonds biography of Dr. Gregg informs us that Mr. Swem passed away that same year.) THE CAREER OF CHARLES LEE SWEM WOODROW…
A dictionary for shorthand writers, sans vowels
Here is an interesting resource, a dictionary that omits vowels: www.archive.org/details/shorthanddiction00dimbiala No publication date is found, but it looks 19th Century-ish. The full title is A Shorthand Dictionary comprising a complete alphabetical arrangement of all English words, written without vowels adapted to all systems of shorthand writing and designed for the use of gentlemen connected…
Question on Alphabetic Systems
I am wondering which is the best of the alphabetic systems in existence? Speedwriting seems to have earned the largest market share in its time. Zinman’s Rapid Writing apparently had a following. I just found a paperback called Shortrite by Rae C. Greenburg that looks interesting. (Forkner has that add-vowels-after-consonants thing—shades of Pitman?) When I…