Mosher shorthand
Claims to be some improvement of Gregg shorthand. How true that is, I cannot estimate….. http://www.archive.org/details/moshershorthandc00moshiala (by sasa for group greggshorthand)
The teaching of orthic shorthand by W. Stevens
I am searching for that book either as a re-print or in digitalized form. But all links on google seems to lead to nothing. Does anyone knows where I could enquire further? Thank you. Sasha (by sasa for group greggshorthand)
Sweet’s shorthand
A link for interested: http://cdm16471.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15457coll1/id/105/rec/1 (by sasa for group greggshorthand)
a ton of questions
plus or minus few kilos. That is how many qus i have in my head regarding shorthand. Hello, my name is Sasha and I am rather new to the world of shorthand. I like to read a lot and would like to remember a lot, therefore I have to note down things that I want…
Taquigrafía Carissimi
Attached is the “Taquigrafía Carissimi” file, as kindly provided by Valo. Attachment: Sistema-Carissimi.pdf
Historical materials about stenography, tachygraphy
Hello! I’ve already posted perhaps best developed article about stenography/shorthand on Wikipedia: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenografia Of course, it’s in Polish. 😉 Now I’m going to edit such a definitions like: tironian notes tachygraphy Tiro (Marcus Tullius) If You have any historical materials in Your collection, that You did not posted them here, I would be grateful for…
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…
Gregg shorthand – Script phonography
Hello. Surfing on the Internet for my own research about the history of shorthand I found such a book: http://www.archive.org/stream/scriptphonograph00maloiala#page/3/mode/1up It looks just like Gregg’s, but strokes/curves are matched to another consonants. But the rules, as just discussed circle rotation, look the same. It was first published at 1885. So, it looks like J. R….
Gurney Shorthand
I noticed that Charles Dickens was a shorthand reporter before becoming the famous author we all know. It normally took a student of Gurney three years of study and practice to meet reporting standards of those days, 140 wpm. The article on Dickens said he met that requirement in three months! The Gurney method predated…
British Shorthand Systems – from 1588 to 1950.
Attachment: chronological_list_of_british_shorthand_systems.pdf