Haul from the "local" used book shop…

(top to bottom)

• "Gregg Shorthand Dictionary"
• "Merry Wives of Windsor" by Shakespeare (that's the opera, by Nicolai Otto, I saw last Friday)
• "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare" by Charles Boyce
• Tennessee Williams "Plays 1957-1980"
• T. S. Eliot "Collected Poems"
• "Clown" by Jon Davison (Readings in Theatre Practice)
• "A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music" by Sonneck / Upton
• "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" by Preminger / Warnke / Hardison

You know how some word processors try to be helpful and “fix” your typing as you go? I keep thinking about that, but for shorthand. Like transforming standard Latin letters into strokes or symbols in real time.

Feels like it could work as a font, with custom characters for common words. Mostly curious, partly tempted to experiment.
#Shorthand #CreativeCoding

I've recently bought the Professional Teeline textbook to brush up on my Teeline and finally learn all the affixes, special outlines, etc.

I'm happy to see a book that tries to apply Teeline to modern language, and that is independent of NCTJ (which "owns" Teeline), and that they are planning to publish a modern Teeline dictionary.

Buuut, the first edition is a mess so far. There are errors in both long- and shorthand, the exercises sometimes use bits of theory that hasn't been introduced yet, and sometimes not, even though they would make the shorthand a lot more efficient, and they sometimes don't even explain those bits (like the SH symbol in 'she'). Plus there are some divergences from the NCTJ "standard" that don't seem necessary.

I'll see if it gets better later. But if you'd like to learn Teeline, definitely go with NCTJ's "Teeline Gold Standard for Journalists"

#Teeline #TeelineShorthand #shorthand #stenography

Well shit. I just tried my tablet’s “calligraphy pen” with my #shorthand, and i love it.

( #korthic 2.1 )

I've done it! The website for my #Shorthand is live along with a PDF booklet with all the details.

I've got some more examples to add in the coming days: a couple pages of "cool looking words" and examples of the ~100 most common English words.

I'm really proud of this. It took a lot of work to get this shorthand to where it is, and I've been test driving it for months now. Putting together the booklet helped level up my skills with Affinity Publisher too.

https://korthic.fyi/

#neography

I made a thing!
Still need to finish putting together a web site for it, and wifey says there are some grammar issues I need to fix, BUT I am so freaking close to releasing this.

I know no-one is going to use it. I don't care. It's something I've been getting value from and wanted to share with others.

Also, all of the example texts are quotes warning about the dangers of fascism. 😉

#neography #shorthand