The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94077 Message #3419336
Posted By: JohnInKansas
13-Oct-12 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: Computer shorthand
Subject: RE: Computer shorthand
For some, the use of "shorthands" is a way of excluding those who aren't "in" from reading their messages.
During one period when I was forced to attend a whole lot of useless management meetings I took most of my notes in Gregg, because their was always some nosy SOB trying to look over my shoulder to see what I was writing.
I was never very good at it, since I only had one weekend to learn; but it served my purposes and was sufficient for response to one of the nosy SOBs (the only ones who had noticed) when one of the secretary/stenographers quit and left a batch of untranscribed letters he'd dictated. (It's a good thing the ballpoint killed Pittman, 'cause I found it much more difficult to read, and never attempted to write it.)
John