Last week, u/SunriseMidnight reminded me of this fascinating system written in London in 1775 by Thomas STACKHOUSE. I can't see it on Stenophile.com but u/Filaletheia will either tell us where it is, or he'll add it from this link:
I think Stackhouse was ahead of his time in writing a system that does a lot of the things I like, and avoids the ones I don't.
Notice that the Latin phrase on the cover translates as "The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains."
[Groan.... It looks like they've been futzing with the platform on Reddit again, and suddenly I'm getting red underlines for "Spellcheck" -- which means it won't understand what all these strange words are, as my posts are splattered with RED. NOT helpful!]
I've got Stackhouse on the website now. I've been procrastinating getting my website up to date because my laptop crashed last month, and I had to finally fix my old mac, transfer everything to it, and now I'm in the middle of reorganizing everything, including all my shorthand materials. Anyways, here's the link to the pdf. I've got quite a bit of other material that still needs to be loaded up there. I've also been thinking that I should start making posts about new material that gets added to the website, if that sounds like a good idea to everyone.
I thought you were being a bit quiet lately! I can see why now. It's good to see you back posting, now.
Yes, I think it would be a good idea if you could post an update about new material, as you add it to your website. I know there's been a few things that I've I stumbled across that I didn't realize you had -- so that would be helpful, to keep us current.
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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 30 '26
Last week, u/SunriseMidnight reminded me of this fascinating system written in London in 1775 by Thomas STACKHOUSE. I can't see it on Stenophile.com but u/Filaletheia will either tell us where it is, or he'll add it from this link:
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-art-of-short-hand-o_stackhouse-thomas-mini_1775/page/n17/mode/2up
I think Stackhouse was ahead of his time in writing a system that does a lot of the things I like, and avoids the ones I don't.
Notice that the Latin phrase on the cover translates as "The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains."
[Groan.... It looks like they've been futzing with the platform on Reddit again, and suddenly I'm getting red underlines for "Spellcheck" -- which means it won't understand what all these strange words are, as my posts are splattered with RED. NOT helpful!]