F u cn red ths

[dr_mabeuse]

F u cn red ths u cn hv a gd jb and ern hi pa!

Does anyone remember speed-writing? They used to advertise it on buses.

Does anyone know shorthand anymore? Do they still teach it? Or does everyone use recorders?

And what about court steongraphers? They’ve got those machines that have like six keys, but they can take down all that stuff verbatim. How do they do that?

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

I thought it said, "Fucking read this."

You seemed awfully adamant, so I did.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I wonder if the people who originally put up those ads knew that.

Of course they did!

---dr.M.

 

[Xelebes]

Looks like 1337sp3ak to me, hehe.

 

[Edward Teach]

And what about court steongraphers? They’ve got those machines that have like six keys, but they can take down all that stuff verbatim. How do they do that?

---dr.M.

My understanding dr. M. is that it's magic, just like computers are magic. Merlin stuff. There ain't no other explanation.

Ed

 

[lucky-E-leven]

My mother in law knows shorthand and uses it daily. Looks like greek to me, but she can turn a picture full of cool squiggles into ten pages of meeting minutes faster than anyone I've ever seen.

My best friend's mother is a court reporter and said that out of all the college she's had and all of the jobs she's had, it was the hardest thing she's ever done. Easy working conditions and good pay, but I never realized that they had to come home and process the records themselves and then produce them for a fee to attorneys and other such folk.



~lucky

 

[shereads]

Soon, of course, court reporters and shorthand skills will be obsolete. The new voice-recognition technolgoy will produce court transcripts like this:

"Your airport of choice kansas dog supper again?"

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Soon, of course, court reporters and shorthand skills will be obsolete. The new voice-recognition technolgoy will produce court transcripts like this:

"Your airport of choice kansas dog supper again?"

No they won't, they'll regurgitate, "I'm sorry I cannot answer that because I am a part of the chain of command." Over, and over, and over again.

~lucky

 

[minsue]

Easy working conditions and good pay, but I never realized that they had to come home and process the records themselves and then produce them for a fee to attorneys and other such folk.



~lucky

And fight like hell to get paid once the work is done.

 

[oggbashan]

Reporters in the UK are still trained to use it and have to pass exams on it. It is essential for getting verbatim quotes.

It is better than using voice recognition because the reporter only records the statements required, not the useless verbiage surrounding them.

My reporter daughter uses her shorthand daily. What she needs is a system of OCR that will read HER shorthand.

Og

 

[Liar]

Fascinating this. I didn't know that there was such a thing as this shorthand writing, or at least not that it was ever an accepted form of jotting things down. I hear all the time how mobile phone messaging and IM chats are destroying the language of yoday's kids. But you, know, that is exactly what that looks like.

#L

ps. X, I'm not sure that even half of the people here are geek enough to actually have heard of 1337 h4XX0rz.

 

[rgraham666]

And what about court steongraphers? They’ve got those machines that have like six keys, but they can take down all that stuff verbatim. How do they do that?

---dr.M.

I think that those machines may be similar to the Brailling that my mom does. She transposes books in to Braille for the blind.

As I recall, the Braille writers have only six keys. Each key raises a dot in a particular spot on the line being typed. Each letter has it's own combination of dots, plus those for punctuation. And a lot of contractions and code phrases that express commonly used words.

It wouldn't surprise me that the stenograhpy machine are very similar.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Damn I write like that! My own shorthand....lol

I remember those ads, does this date us now?

I saw this on a site one day, thought it would come in handy.

 

[sweetnpetite]

As far as I know they don't teach it any more- but I think they should. Now they just suggest taking notes pretty much like what you did, but as we can see it's not always so easy to read later!

My mom had a Gregg shorthand book when I was a kid and I started to teach it to myself. It was pretty cool. I would love to learn it, I know they still have some books on it at my library.

I think it's a worthwile skill that schools should go back to teaching.

F u cn red ths u cn hv a gd jb and ern hi pa!

Does anyone remember speed-writing? They used to advertise it on buses.

Does anyone know shorthand anymore? Do they still teach it? Or does everyone use recorders?

And what about court steongraphers? They’ve got those machines that have like six keys, but they can take down all that stuff verbatim. How do they do that?

---dr.M.

 

[gauchecritic]

I took a version of this shorthand for about six weeks, not only do you miss out the vowels but the letters themselves are shortened ^ for 'A'. Never did get the hang of it.

Stenographers with those 6 key things. I'm pretty sure (though I've never actually been told this) that the letters in shorthand require only 6 strokes in total to make them all. Perhaps combinations of the 6 keys make up any word.

What I do know is that reading shorthand depends a hell of a lot on context as there are loads of words that are the same when you take away the vowels.
eg spcs
No context means that word could be almost anything. (it was specious, rather fitting)

Gch

 

[Black Tulip]

At one time I mastered shorthand in three languages, Dutch, English and French.
I used the Dutch for a long time after, it was great for taking notes in college.

I still use the method of shortening words when I have to take notes in a meeting. It's not about leaving out the vowels, it's shortening = short t wrds.

Dear sirs = deasrs if I recall correctly. But that would require a context to make sense.

 

[cantdog]

My wife took it and took notes with it all through nursing school.

Sh stll rmmbrs evrthg sh lrnd.



She showed it to me and I got so I could read it a little, but it's got all the problems of handwriting, in that everyone's looks a little different. You have to transcribe your own, really.

Learning a new alphabet isn't that difficult if you're young. All language skills get tougher to catch on to as you get older, seemingly.

I believe they still do teach it; it's too useful to discard.

 

[herecomestherain]

0{3)o*= 0{3)o*< 0{3)o*= 0{3)o*< 0{3)o*= 0{3)o*<

0{3)o*<0[#)*:-< (BTW that's # a furry chest not a plaid shirt...)

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I've use Tony Buzan's very useful methods for both notetaking, idea generation and capture.Mind Mapping

 

[cloudy]

I took shorthand my senior year of high school, and promptly forgot every bit of it once I graduated.

To be honest, I can type a whole lot faster than I can take any kind of notes by hand.

 

[raphy]

ps. X, I'm not sure that even half of the people here are geek enough to actually have heard of 1337 h4XX0rz.

Some of us are. Medi-man and I once had a conversation in l33t-sp34k on here. I think we scared (or maybe scarred) everyone.