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submitted 1 year ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

I was learning Gregg Shorthand at some point just for the fun of it and every time I brought it up people had no idea what I was on about.

[-] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember when shorthand was a required course for women in secretarial schools. I always though it was black magic and very cool.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[-] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

In my 60's. According to Internet sources, shorthand was taught in schools until the 1990's. It's likely that shorthand use declined as PCs became common in offices.

[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

My mom grew up in the 80s and I remember her telling me I needed to learn it too in the 90's so I could be a waitress someday if needed.

I took a typing class instead! Worked great for me lol

[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I think it was still taught to business students up until the mid-90's in my country. That's also how I got my hands on an old Gregg shorthand textbook. That, and typing (via a typewriter) which was the one I learned when I was in high school.

Had I had a choice, I would have chosen to learn shorthand instead.

[-] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 10 points 1 year ago

I still dabble with orthic shorthand - it's kind of like seeing language from a different perspective.

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I just looked that up. It does look like some sort of linguistic research.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

I only know about it because of my fountain pen hobby; back in the mid 20th C, Esterbrook made fountain pens with replaceable nibs and offered a wide variety including a Gregg shorthand nib. I guess the Gregg shorthand people licensed the name for marketing. It was basically a normal non, but branded.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Is that how Gregg's remember which are steak bakes, and which are chicken bakes?

[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Hey! Someone left an old Gregg Shorthand textbook (anniversary edition, if I remember it correctly) in our house back when I was a child, and I tried learning it. Still kinda interested in it up until now.

Tried learning it again back during the lockdown days, but it went nowhere unfortunately.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Follow up with a small description, like a sub title. Like...

Gregg Shorthand: A Stenographer's Worst Best friend

Or some nonsense.

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

That's pretty cool. Basically the same as enciphering something nowadays.

[-] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

And now that I've discovered it I'm going to add that somewhere in a secret society in my DND adventure

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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