Shorthand

doctor evil

Sorry Mods, not too sure where to put this, if its in the wrong forum feel free to move it.

Does any one use shorthand a known variation or a makeyuppy one? (comeon, get on yer thinking caps ). I want to be able to use it for notes but it can`t be too complicated. Even if peeps tell what symbols they use for words or a group of words etc(feck all imagination) it would.


Cheers all .

Dizzyblabla

When I was in college I used the "agus" symbol (like and in Irish), it's like a '7' but subscripted! - that's all! (apart from the obvious s/w, h/w, DS etc..)

StupidLikeAFox

You want to write coded letters for instance?

Steveire

It depends what type of notes you want to take. I study engineering, so i use shorthand like the stuff in the attachment. (I also use many more.) But if you do arts, that's completely different.

Branoic

I learned shorthand in college as part of my course (journalism). Its deceptively complicated. Much more that you'd think. In fact, I'd go so far as to say its insanely complicated. That might just have been the version we were learning though. Our teacher was a half crippled senile 70 year old and she used a very very old version of shorthand. So old that nobody could ever locate an actual book, and we all used photocopies of her 60 year old edition. And then I never ever used it in real life.

So my suggestion is to make up your own.

Kêrmêttê

I learned Pitman shorthand about 20 yrs ago (while I was a very young child and I was bored one summer). Twasnt too difficult to learn. There was another older, more difficult form of shorthand in use as someone already mentioned but I didn't bother with that.
I had thought that learning shorthand might be useful when I left school and got a secretarial job... but no one used the damn thing once I'd finally finished with school.
Just use a dictaphone or a schmall tape recorder... much simpler

flogen

I (was supposed to have) learned Teeline Gold in college, was actually an ok subject, but you really have to give it the time, something I was far from prepared to do when I had about 20 more important assignments due.

NotMe

I couldn't be bothered with it myself. Just learn how to write faster?

doctor evil

Bumpitty-Bump, bump bump.


I would like to be able to condense my writing(words/phrases) so they don`t take up as much room when I write notes, also so I would be able to write faster as well.

Victor

We have taperecorders these days.