Penmanship Practice – August 2023
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French: Madame se meurt
Hello, granted, this is not a “jolly text” but it’s from Bossuet and it is from his most famous oration. The speaker is there at the peak of his art. Lastly I can add there’s a weak relationship between this text and the previous one in French: poor Henriette-Anne’s state would have been the combination…
La Marseillaise
For our francophone writers and in celebration of Bastille Day (la Fête nationale française, le 14 juillet), the story of La Marseillaise, as told by the French author, poet, and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine, and transcribed by yours truly in Sténographie Gregg (both Anniversary and Simplified) for the blog. Attachment: la-marseillaise-anniv.pdf Attachment: la-marseillaise-simpl.pdf
America
An essay about America, from the book Let the Record Speak by American journalist Dorothy Thompson, here transcribed by me in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: america.pdf
The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolution
David Ramsay was one of the American Revolution’s first major historians. Although trained as a physician, during the Revolutionary War he was a member of the South Carolina legislature. Since he was personally involved in the events of the revolution (him serving as field surgeon in the South Carolina militia and his brother Nathaniel as…
The Shot that Might Have Changed History
In February 1753, at age 21, George Washington was appointed Major of one of the Virginia Militia districts. The British and French wanted each to control the Ohio Valley: the British constructing forts along the Ohio River, and the French between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. In October 1753, Washington was sent as a…
Penmanship Practice – July 2023
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French: “La croissance exponentielle“
Hello, here is an except from a French translation of “The Limits to Growth, the 30-Year Update”. (The author of this little tale would be the mathematician Robert Lattès.)
Differences in Pre-Anniversary texts
In the Facebook Gregg Shorthand group, someone posted a graphic with some words that didn’t make any sense. One of the members tracked down the source, and it turned out to be a sentence from the Pre-Anniversary manual that had been cut in half and put back together with part of the text missing, so…
Améliorer son vocabulaire
Here is small selection transcribed in Sténographie Gregg by yours truly for the blog (both in Anniversary and Simplified). Attachment: améliorer-son-vocabulaire-anniv.pdf Attachment: améliorer-son-vocabulaire-simpl.pdf