Melville Bell’s Steno-Phonography?
Anyone know anything about Melville Bell’s Steno-Phonography? Evidently popular among linguists of the 19th century. (by routine-sibling for everyone)
Mystery shorthand from 18th century
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Pitman Shorthand
I don’t know if this thread was created before, because I don’t know how to look for a subject thread in MSN groups, anyway, here I go: Does anyone have information about Pitman in full? I mean: versions, languages, country, author, publishing years, etc. in files: word, PDF, etc. (by valo1969 for everyone)
Longhand Penmanship
Hi Everybody 🙂 I’m a big penmanship nerd in general, my longhand included, and am the only person I know who regularly “improves” his writing style by replacing letter forms, ligatures, and by practicing penmanship. I think my current writing most resembles Zapfino, except with longer T ascenders and reversed-curving Ls like the Ds. Anyway,…
Crossword Item
The New York Times crossword puzzle recently (No. 0617, which I presume to be June 17), contained the following clue: “Position that’s an anagram, appropriately, of ‘notes’. ” Why didn’t I get it instantly? Cheers, Don Ramsey (by allbooksconsidered for everyone)
Taquigrafía Morma
Luis Morales Matus created a new shorthand system for Spanish language, and the method was published in 1926: “Curso de Taquigraf챠a Superior”. First, Morales used Marti’s shorthand system when he applied for a position in Chilean Representative Chamber, but he didn’t get success in the contest. Then, he decided to create a new system that…
Taquigrafia Gregg
I finally got a copy of Taquigrafia Gregg. The copyright/publishing date is 1923. I’m learning Anniversary, and wanted the most comparable edition for Spanish. But the next edition I could find on Amazon or Ebay was from the 1940s. Priscilla (by gwriter53 for everyone)
Shorthand Books for Sale
Hello All, I hope it is clear that I joined this group because of my family history (Astrid Ramsey, platewriter), and not for the purpose of selling books. However, it just happens that this morning I walked past my Business section and spied the following 3 books lying on the edge of the shelf, virtually shouting…
Sweet’s Current Orthographic PDF Available
Finished creating a pdf of Henry Sweet’s “Current Orthographic Shorthand”. Haven’t found a place to post it publicly yet, but I can email it to anyone who’s interested and has 14MB of inbox space. (And if that doesn’t narrow it down), I’ll warn that the edition I scanned and set was a degraded microform printing…
800 Members—Yehaw!
To everyone who, when you should be working on your TPS reports, takes measureless time to trudge through pages of text, gives advice to beginners, supports students and associates with other users of Gregg: thank you! The Gregg Group is now 800 members strong. Our discussion boards contain a total of 5,846 messages (5,847 now). That’s an average…