#shorthand — Public Fediverse posts

Specialists still have to speak everyone else's shorthand: Sixteen terms and four groups to sort. The hardest set is built from words most practitioners use weekly, which is exactly why it hides in plain sight. https://ppc.land/everyone-elses-shorthand/ #Language #Communication #Terminology #Specialists #Shorthand

Illustration by Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland (1919).

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/22b50a24-4af1-43a0-8758-800917c0f247

#shorthand #books #language #rabbits #writing #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland (1919).

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/58b92032-6d19-42bb-8279-44d1c70a8342

#dodos #shorthand #books #language #writing #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ✍️🏛️ At Cicero’s request, his freed slave and secretary Marcus Tullius Tiro devised Tironian notes, a #shorthand system of roughly 4,000 symbols for #Latin.

Used to transcribe the orator’s speeches, it expanded to 14,000 signs before emperors suppressed it as diabolical. The symbol ⁊ survives today as the Tironian et in #Unicode, preserved by #Irish and #Gaelic #typography.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/discover-the-ancient-roman-shorthand-writing-system-with-4000-symbols-commissioned-by-cicero.html

#cicero #history #rome #writing #language #linguistics #typing #ancientrome #science

Unskilled #Teeline #shorthand is lossy compression, and that's fine. I can #write in it, and if some of the rough draft is lost in the squiggles, then I will draft something better (hopefully more memorable).

@samuelpepys
Sorry old chap, I don't understand your banter.
("turned up his tail"?)

#Pepys #English #language #diary #1600s #history #Tachygraphy #ShortHand

Here’s a word for you: idioglossia

That’s a language spoken by one or very few people.

Why do I mention it? Because there is a page on one of my websites titled: Matt’s idioglossia: A crap primer. It attempts to document for the first time the weird shorthand I use for notes intended only for me.

Not to be confused with familect, which is the strange dialect you and your family speak to each other.

Any other #teeline #shorthand students/users around here?

#teelineShorthand #writing #notes

@moncur_d ⬆️ fediverse: is this #shorthand ?

#Learn #teeline #shorthand and distribute as #PDF so the #LLM ( #AI ) can't figure it out

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

Some of my #teeline #shorthand practice