r/greggshorthand

Hello! I found this postcard in a box of old family photos. I’m so curious what this says so I can try to figure out who these people are/who the card was for. Help?

Is that normale:(

The last word. The rest of the sentence is "He made a low grade in (???)"

Webpage - Greggantic

We are

We were

There are

There were

Hello--apologies in advance if this kind of query isn't allowed. I learned Gregg shorthand long ago and recognize that these seem to be Gregg symbols, but I can't read it. The context is the typescript of Act IV of a play from 1906 (The House of Mirth) with a conversation between two women, Gerty and Lily. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

(hopefully this is fine to post!) Hi all, I just recently started doing shorthand as a hobby and found a practice PDF online but I'm really stumped on this one word, I can't find it in any of the dictionaries and it's not marked as a proper noun or name. Picture attached, word I can't figure out is second to last. It looks like A N E/I D. Sentence is something like "[I'm] getting the training [word] here."

Any help is appreciated!

Hi all. Both my parents passed away in the last 10 years and I am still going through all their storage bins. I found the attached shorthand note which was part of my grandmother's bridal shower activity for guests. The shower took place in May of 1927. Guests were asked to provide advice to my grandmother as she was about to enter married life. Can someone help me and translate what was written. Google told me it was Gregg shorthand, thus my visit to your fine community here. Thank you for your time.

so its been 1 month of me learning gregg shorthand using simplified manual. ive been learning for jounaling purposes, so i dont have a formal teacher. this is an excerpt from my journal entry, is it readable to you all? (i can read it just fine, also ignore the cross out oness made some mistakes)

I wrote these song lyrics today for practice and fun. This is one of my all-time favorite songs. My favorite version is a cover, but it's probably more well known than the original, which is also good. As for the tools I used, the Gregg ruled paper is from a Portage Professional Stenographer's Notebook. I'm using a Sailor Hocoro, Medium Point dip pen and ink is Speedball Super Black. I'm very new to using a dip pen so my outlines aren't as smooth or consistent as if I'd used a fountain pen or a gel pen.

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But how is this possible? Firstly, this was written in early 1914. There were no smartphones, videogames, television, or even radio programs. People could think and learn more efficiently because their homes were not constantly polluted by sounds and images from the outside world. They had attention spans and memory capacities that we can‘t even imagine.

Secondly, the Editor of the magazine was probably a skilled writer of another shorthand system before he discovered Gregg. His brain had already devised strategies for learning and using shorthand, and thus was able to take on a second system more easily, just as some people report that learning to speak a third language was easier than learning the second one.

I’m not sure which edition of the Gregg Manual they were using but it was prior to the Fifth Edition of 1916, and long before the Anniversary edition of 1929.

article source: Gregg Shorthand Magazine (published in Liverpool), January 1914, page 59.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000111687947&seq=81