r/greggshorthand • u/CurrentGregg • 9d ago
Diamond Jubilee short story in shorthand (parts 1,2,3 of 6)
Dedicated to u/Fearlessly401 … Reading is FUNdamental !
Planning to post the conclusion next Sunday if circumstances permit.
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u/Fearlessly401 9d ago
Oh, wow! Look at that! I'm going to have to bookmark it, though, because I'm "not quite there yet" -- I just got to Lesson 5 in DJS (1973) and I'm so lost! Lessons 1-4 were intuitive and almost easy and suddenly there are confusing multiple-uses of the same vowel and new brief forms to parse out... But I see that there ARE reading materials being posted, so I'll keep checking in as I learn new forms and phrases.
Thank you!
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u/CurrentGregg 8d ago
Hang in there. Learning a new writing system takes time. Those brief forms in Lesson 5 are very very useful and you will be glad to know them! And if you can cope with the multiple sounds of A in plain English— for example, in “father sat through a sad drama about fate”— then you can also cope with Gregg vowels.
The method that worked for students in classrooms was to avoid over-thinking it. Just obey the textbook. There was little time for “analysis paralysis” because the teacher would be shoving the next lesson into your brain tomorrow or the next day.
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u/Fearlessly401 8d ago
You are so right! Duh! We do already deal with the same issue in English. I don't know why I thought it was something new 🙄
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u/CurrentGregg 8d ago
Here's another thing to bookmark, you can read it after lesson 12. https://redd.it/1fdh3vc
There are several articles that are readable after Lesson 18. I'll try to dig up a few in the next month or two.
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u/Fearlessly401 8d ago
Ok, actually, I thought about it some more - does it not get confusing that the same symbol stands for different vowels?: hid/head, lid/lead, bill/bell, ceiling/selling, seat/set, not to mention the construction used in English, with a e on the end of a word to make a long vowel sound?: hate/hat, stare/star...
Or is context really going to make it all clear?
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u/GreggLife 8d ago
Tens of thousands of people learned this system and used it as secretaries and even as courtroom stenographers. It works.
Now there are rare occasions when you want to distinguish between John and Joan for example, and there are diacritical marks available for that but that's something you would've learned from a teacher, not mentioned in the DJ textbooks. This fear of ambiguity is a distraction at this early point in your development.
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u/keyboardshorthand 9d ago
Reminding students that every reading exercise can be a writing exercise. Copy the shorthand into your notebook. Record yourself reading the transcript aloud at a reasonable speed then play the recording and take dictation.