RE: [lace-chat] Shorthand
Oh Janice I had forgotten about the typing to music, we also had one rather nasty teacher who used a metronome and speeded it up as you practice typed. I can still hear him chanting ASDF:LKJ We were not allowed to look at the keys and that has always stood me in good stead as it definitely helped you type a lot faster. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
RE: [lace-chat] shorthand
I still have my "Pitmans Course" book and also my "Learning and Testing Short Forms" book that I had when I went back to evening classes to brush up my shorthand. I took shorthand, typing and accounts at school way back in the early fifties. With the arrival of audio tapes the shorthand rather got lost along the way as it was easier for the boss to dictate as and when he wanted. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Shorthand
Lesley wrote: I also did Pitman at High School and college. I remember reading short stories written in shorthand for practice. I wonder if they are still available, or like the skills have got left behind. I still use it when taking notes and I sometimes think in shorthand shapes. Was Pitman taught in the US? I thought it was all Gregg over here. I had a telex machine in my office once I was promoted out of the typing pool in my first job. I remember that for that interview a secretary read a piece from the Guardian newspaper about a man running up Helvelyn in the Lake District. I totally lost it when she said that name and spent a long time trying to transcribe it. Wish she had left the newspaper behind. :-) I did get the job though and they paid for me to go to college on a secretarial course even though I already had high speeds at typing and shorthand. My typing class was full of young policemen who had to learn how to do shorthand and typing. We used to type in time to music on a record player and had covered keys on the typewriter. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] shorthand
Ruth Rocker wrote: I took shorthand in high school and then again in business college. But, unfortunately, by the time I sent to college to pursue my degree, I had lost those skills. I was truly bewailing the loss as it would have made lecture classes much easier to remember. Like most things in life, it's use it or lose it :D I remember practicing by taking down the commentary on Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations on TV. I wish I'd kept that - it would have made an interesting keepsake. Lesley To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] shorthand
Agnes Boddington wrote: I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use it for general notes and lists and such like. And, of course, I do it in Dutch. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK I still use my shorthand - Pitman 2000, especially for taking telephone messages. This discussion has reminded me about a temp job I did as secretary to a bank manager. He used to reel off his letters really fast and I could barely keep up. Once I couldn't read a shorthand outline and had to ask him what the word was. He pulled a piece of paper out of the bin and there was the letter he'd dictated - written in longhand. The reason he dictated so fast was because he was reading!! Goodness knows why he didn't just give me the handwritten letter to copy type I don't know. Must have been something to do with the status symbol of having a secretary to take dictation. So glad the job only lasted a week. Lesley To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] shorthand
I took shorthand in high school and then again in business college. But, unfortunately, by the time I sent to college to pursue my degree, I had lost those skills. I was truly bewailing the loss as it would have made lecture classes much easier to remember. Like most things in life, it's use it or lose it :D Agnes Boddington wrote: I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use it for general notes and lists and such like. And, of course, I do it in Dutch. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. -- Ruth R. in Ohio roxw...@krafters.net To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] shorthand
I still have my text book from a shorthand course I did when I was 15. I used shorthand for many years at school, university, work and still use it for general notes and lists and such like. And, of course, I do it in Dutch. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Shorthand/texting
Posting this here because it has nothing to do with lace, but related to what was being discussed there. There were a couple of comedians performing (one is now dead) called the Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett). Barker wrote many sketches under an assumed name because he didn't know if they would be good enough. One was set in a (probably) German cafe about a customer wanting ham and eggs, and was based entirely on letters of the alphabet. Ronnie Corbett: L.O. Ronnie Barker: L.O. Ronnie Corbett: R.U.B.C? Ronnie Barker: S.V.R.B.C. Various Characters: [enter waitress carrying a large ham on a silver salver] L.O. Ronnie Barker: L.O. Ronnie Corbett: L.O. [exit waitress into kitchen] Ronnie Corbett: F.U.N.E.X? Ronnie Barker: S.V.F.X. Ronnie Corbett: F.U.N.E.M? Ronnie Barker: 9. Ronnie Corbett: I.F.C.D.M. Ronnie Barker: [insistently] V.F.N.10.E.M. Various Characters: [enter waitress from kitchen still carrying the ham] A. V.F.M. Ronnie Corbett: R. Ronnie Corbett: O. Various Characters: C. D.M. [exit waitress into kitchen] Ronnie Barker: O.S. V.F.M. Ronnie Corbett: O.K. M.N.X. Ronnie Barker: M.N.X. Ronnie Corbett: F.U.N.E.T? Ronnie Barker: 1 T. Ronnie Corbett: 1 T. Ronnie Barker: O.K. M.X.N.T. [he finishes writing it on his pad with a flourish and calls at the kitchen door] Ronnie Barker: M.X.N.T.4.1. They did another very famous one on different word meanings and pronunciation known as "Four candles" set in an old-fashioned hardware shop with the customer asking for various items and the shop keeper coming up with the wrong things. Examples were: "Four candles" - "fork handles" - handles for forks. "ose" shop keeper produced hose (stockings), garden hose for watering- wanted letter Os for a house name Mon Repose. The whole script is on http://www.angelfire.com/me/tvcomedy/fourcandles.html. The actual sketch is on utube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ Wonderful what you can do with language. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
