07-30-21, 01:26 PM | ||
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Helen, I learned Pittman shorthand in high school and was really good at it. When I entered the workforce, however, recorded dictation was the rage. At first we used these big tape "belts" and then the handheld Dictaphones came on the scene, so I lost all my shorthand skills.
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07-30-21, 01:45 PM | |
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somewhat related - we just started using Microsoft Teams for virtual meeting software. they have this function where it creates subtitles on the bottom of the screen of the person talking. i suppose you could download it and voila! you have a transcript.
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07-30-21, 02:01 PM | ||
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She was quite innovative and what a smart idea! It's funny, though, how good inventions that were groundbreaking and necessary in their era sometimes get rendered completely obsolete in only a few decades.
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07-30-21, 07:38 PM | ||
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I recall in grad school a presentation that included information about how in the electronic age we no longer have to use 2 spaces between one sentence and the next as we did on typewriters. How is that for a blast from the past! To this day I sometimes use shorthand to write notes to myself. Especially if it’s something I don’t want anyone else to understand such as when I’m angry at work and want to “say” something really obnoxious or out of line. The bad news is I can’t read it back anymore. I was able to use it some when I was in college as long as I transcribed fairly soon. I don’t know how to write it phonetically, but “ooh, kay, gay” periodically pops into my head for one reason or another. I remember several years ago reading an article about there being a demand for people who could read shorthand because of all these old corporate documents that no one could understand, but were needed for one reason or another. The problem is that most people who used shorthand extensively developed their own abbreviations and to some extent, style. It’s hard to read someone else’s shorthand. _____ YADeb |
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07-31-21, 07:18 AM | |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I used to use Gregg (?) shorthand. I remember I wrote down a dr. appt on my desk calendar at work in shorthand. My boss was insane and I guess he used to snoop around my desk when I wasn't there. Anyway when I came to work the following day he marches over to my desk and demands to know what I wrote down in shorthand on my desk calendar. I guess he thought I was writing bad things about him (gee I wonder why). I was so young I think I told him what I wrote. Now I would tell him where to put the calendar as I was walking out the door
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07-31-21, 06:27 PM | |
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Arizona
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I remember learning to type in high school with the large screen at the front of the room, lighting up each key we were to press. Now that I look back on it, that teacher must have been so bored lol. I eventually became a legal secretary, so have always been a fast typer.
I took a year of Gregg Shorthand my senior year in high school. I think I was pretty proficient. I remember getting some Gregg charms for my charm bracelet. But I never used it after high school. I went to college, and by the time I was working full time, everyone was using dictation. I remember having an electric typewriter at my desk, but the office had one computer for large mailings, merging addresses with the form letter. This was in 1982z
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