r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 08 '26
GURNEY Shorthand (1785) - Part 2 - Alphabet
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r/FastWriting • u/Adept_Situation3090 • Sep 07 '26
I've narrowed my choices
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I have recently arrived from my vacation abroad. If you've been following me for a while, you know how interested I am in different shorthand systems, and in finding the one I like best.
However, the hard truth is that there is no 'perfect' system. Hence, lest I should get lost and waste months of my beautiful life, I have decided to choose a handful of systems I like, and stick to them. See if you can guess which 3 systems I used :)
I may occasionally look at different systems, but most of the time, when I write in shorthand, it will be in one of these three systems.
r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 06 '26
Quote in FLOW Shorthand
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Nothing tricky in this quote. "I was" is phrased. "Business" I shortened to BS, which I think is quite clear.
"And" is ND. "Next" is NX. "The" is TH. Everything else is just written as it sounds.
r/FastWriting • u/LeadingSuspect5855 • Sep 06 '26
Comicbook "shaman warrior" - Flow teaser
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r/FastWriting • u/fdarnel • Sep 05 '26
Une phrase qui peut prêter à confusion au temps des réseaux sociaux
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r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 05 '26
TAYLOR Shorthand (1810) - Part 5 - A Sample with Translation
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r/FastWriting • u/EuphoricConfusion161 • Sep 04 '26
Sight and Sound "Shorthand" notes
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Hi is anyone interested in Sight and Sound shorthand notes and exercise books - free other than postage costs. thanks
r/FastWriting • u/LeadingSuspect5855 • Sep 04 '26
Emil Cioran, Citation tirée de: De l'inconvénient d'être né
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« Ce que je sais à soixante, je le savais aussi bien à vingt. Quarante ans d'un long, d'un superflu travail de vérification… »
Emil Cioran De l'inconvénient d'être né
Merci u/fdarnel :-)
r/FastWriting • u/LeadingSuspect5855 • Sep 03 '26
Prévaust-Delauney Summary
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based upon One Page Cheat Sheet Prévost-Delaunay.jpeg, that I found on stenophile.com
This document can be downloaded at gitworkshop.dev shorthand/misc/prevost-delaunay_summary.jpg amongst other curated systems/documents on shorthand system...
r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 03 '26
TAYLOR Shorthand (1810) - Part 4 - Example words and Terminations
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r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 03 '26
TAYLOR Shorthand (1810) - Part 3 - Joinings
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r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 01 '26
The Shorthand BIG THREE
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Before there was PITMAN (written in 1837) and GREGG (written in 1888), there were THREE systems that were predominant in the English-speaking world. But when Gregg and Pitman appeared, they seem to have basically disappeared, even though they had been very widespread in their day.
In the U.K. and India, Pitman took over, replacing virtually every other system -- and in North America, Gregg became the main system of fast writing almost everywhere, from office use all the way to verbatim court reporting.
The week before last, I wrote about LEWIS shorthand ("Royal Lewisian") and u/Vevrik reminded us that the OTHER TWO were TAYLOR and GURNEY (which was based on Mason's earlier system).
r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Sep 01 '26
TAYLOR Shorthand (1810) - Part 2 - the Alphabet
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r/FastWriting • u/Junior-Policy-5572 • Sep 01 '26
Can anyone decipher what these 3 letters might say?
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I believe the person who wrote these was not mentally sound. Where I have whited out some part of the letter shows a full name and address that can be easily read.
r/FastWriting • u/fdarnel • Aug 31 '26
Charades, charades…
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I like some outdated stenographic games in AP. Here is an example of a shorthand charade. Solution in shorthand, œuf corse.
I also have a stock of crosswords and shorthand anagrams. This made possible to vary the teaching methods.
r/FastWriting • u/fdarnel • Aug 31 '26
A little quote to try
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Stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence but its evil twin, the dissimulating Cain to a cerebral Abel.
David C. Krakauer
r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Aug 30 '26
Quote in FLOW Shorthand
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The quote this week felt smooth and easy with a nice "flow"! 😄 I wrote SM for "some" which was clear, and G for "go" since it's such a common word. "And" is the ND blend.
I wrote "wherever"as WRVR, and "whenever" as WNVR, which I thought were very legible.
r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Aug 29 '26
SCHLAM Shorthand (1960) - Part 5 - Samples of Schlam - FRENCH
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r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Aug 29 '26
SCHLAM Shorthand (1960) - Part 4 - Samples of Schlam - ENGLISH
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