I’m torn. I want to learn #shorthand #writing. But the choice is hard:

• I mainly write English, so something explicitly English works best. Like Gregg shorthand.

• But then, I also want to stay closer to conventionality of longhand, so Forkner? (Having started it, I discovered that it still strays too far from longhand and is rather a bulkier version of Gregg.)

• And I’m still Russian, so I have a lingering doubt that maybe I should rather learn (Sokolov’s) GESS #stenography, because Russian is (arguably) phonetically more expressive than English. And who knows, maybe I’ll start writing more Russian someday?

• Actually, is there a universal-ish phonetic shorthand system? Something like #Shavian, but shorthand?

AAAAAAAAAAAAA, why is it so hard to choose????

So if I move to #Gregg #shorthand for my writing, #Kaktovik numbers for calculations, start using a Commonplace book and physical #Zettelkasten notes, will I have any chance against digitized workflows’ speed? I actually want to try that life to see how far computerless life can get one.

Spreadsheets on paper anyone? Abstracting numeric operations by remembering the graphics of them (reminds me of the #APL #ACM paper by Iverson?)

#theWorkshop

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 )