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  Shorthand - LoveToKnow 1911
The second group of examples of Greek shorthand is confined to a few fragmentary papyri and waxen tablets ranging from the 4th to the 8th century, chiefly among the Rainer collection at Vienna, to which Professor Wessely has devoted much labour.
Shorthand has become an almost indispensable qualification for the amanuensis, and practical stenographic ability is a necessary equipment of the typewriter operator.
Shorthand has been included among examination subjects for the army, navy, civil service and medicine in the United Kingdom, and to a certain extent in other countries.
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 Shorthand - MSN Encarta
The beginning of shorthand is usually dated from the writings of the Greek historian Xenophon, who used an ancient Greek system to write Socrates' memoirs.
Most of the 17th- and 18th-century shorthands followed the principles of Willis's system; they had geometric characters, with straight lines, segments of circles, and so forth, and were basically alphabetic and orthographic (using normal spellings).
In 1837, at the age of 24, the British educator and spelling reformer Sir Isaac Pitman published a shorthand system that was completely phonetic (lain and lane were both written as lān, knife as nīf) and was based on a systematic analysis of language sounds.
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 Shorthand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shorthand is an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language.
Modern-looking geometric shorthand was introduced with John Byrom's 'New Universal Shorthand' of 1720.
Script shorthand is based on the motions of ordinary handwriting, such as Gabelsberger shorthand's and those derived from it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shorthand   (1961 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for shorthand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
shorthand any brief, rapid system of writing that may be used in transcribing, or recording, the spoken word.
Such systems, many having characters based on the letters of the alphabet, were used in ancient times; the shorthand of Tiro, Cicero's amanuensis, was used for centuries.
In Stenographic Soundhand (1837) he set forth a shorthand system based on phonetic rather than orthographic principles; adapted to more than a dozen languages, it became one of the most-used systems in the world.
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Gabelsberger's (1789–1849) Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst (Munich, 1834) is the most important of the German systems.
On Gabelsberger's system is based that of W. Stolze (184o).
Other histories of shorthand are by F. Gabelsberger (prefixed to his Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst, Munich, 1834), A. Fosse (prefixed to his Cours theorique et pratique de stenographie, Paris, 1849), Scott de Martinville (Paris, 1849), M. Levy (London, 1862) and T. Anderson (London, 1882).
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 AllRefer.com - shorthand (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
The Pitman system makes use of shading (a line heavily drawn has a meaning different from that of the same line lightly drawn) and of differences in slope and position on a given line; it is geometric in outline and is difficult to master but makes possible very great speed.
On the Continent, F. Gabelsberger (Germany) and Emile DuployE (France) originated widely used systems; in South America and Canada, the Sloan-Duployan shorthand is favored.
Use of keyboard machines such as the Stenotype or Stenograph machines is extensive in courts of law and other places where great speed, silence, and portability of equipment are essential in recording speech; such machines are now computerized, with the transcribed text appearing on a small display screen.
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 Search Results for "Shorthand"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In Stenographic Soundhand (1837) he set forth a shorthand system based on phonetic rather than orthographic...
He devised an early shorthand system, which he taught in Manchester.
...Gabelsberger, Franz Xaver, (frants ksaver´ ga´blsber´gr) (KEY), 1780-1849, German stenographer.
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 Shorthand - ninemsn Encarta
The first modern shorthand system was patented in 1588 by the English cleric Timothy Bright.
Shorthand systems were also developed for other European languages from the 17th century on.
By 1889 about 97 per cent of American shorthand writers used the system.
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 Dresden Treasures. The Special Collections of the Saxon State and University Library.
The shorthand notice is written in pencil in the Swedish style of colonel-general Olaf Melin.
All her revisions were done in shorthand and she transferred all her texts herself from stenography to typewriter.
The union was devoted to the cultivation and the contribution of the German cursive Stenographic System Gabelsberger as well as the transfer of the System of Heinrich Richter into the English language.
www.tu-dresden.de /slub/MiamiExhibit/steno.htm   (1199 words)

  
 Föreningen Gabelsberger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Föreningen Gabelsberger is a shorthand association whose mission is to promote in Finland shorthand in swedish.
The name of the association, Föreningen Gabelsbergers, derives from the german Franz Xaver Gabelsberger who can be said to be the father of the modern pen shorthand.
The association is favor of using shorthand regardless the system the person uses.
kotisivu.mtv3.fi /pikakirjoitus/English/Gabelsberger.html   (238 words)

  
 Shorthand Summary
Seventeenth-century English author Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) wrote his famous literary diary in shorthand; the secrecy of the method is thought to have helped him to record personal anecdotes that he might otherwise have excluded for fear of discovery.
Its relative speed and accessibility quickly made it the preeminent shorthand system in the English-speaking world (it remains the standard system in Great Britain), and it was adapted for many European languages as well.
However, with the advent of the personal computer and voice-activated input systems, many managers and executives are finding it easier to do their own typing, and shorthand may be a dying art, used primarily by reporters when taking notes during interviews.
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 KEY (the phraseograms ... - Online Information article about KEY (the phraseograms ...
On Gabelsberger's system is based that of W.
Gabelsberger (prefixed to his Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst, Munich, 1834), A.
Congress in 1887, and similar publications in connexion with later congresses; Bibliography of Shorthand, by J.
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 U.S. 5,596,656 (Xerox) Reexamination Request
These shorthand alphabets (as well as many of the other prior art references) also disclose the claimed "linear and arcuate" unistroke symbols, claim elements that were lacking in the limited prior art considered during the prosecution of the patent.
Thus, it would be contrary to the standard Pitman shorthand methodology to require the 'pointer' to be engaged with and disengaged from the digitizer on a stroke-by-stroke basis.
In fact, shorthand alphabets having symbols nearly identical to those disclosed in the '656 patent are well known and in the prior art.
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 Wolfe’s “From the Cradle”; The Obsolescence of the Gabelsberger Shorthand | Jonathan Goodwin
Wolfe’s “From the Cradle”; The Obsolescence of the Gabelsberger Shorthand
Wolfe’s “From the Cradle”; The Obsolescence of the Gabelsberger Shorthand
Another of the many interesting things that happened in 1926 was the switch to the Einheitskurzschrift system of shorthand in Austria from the Gabelsberger method (”Gödel’s Gabelsberger Shorthand,” Cheryl A. Dawson, Collected Works III: 7).
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 Godel 2
Headings are in German or English, notes are in Gabelsberger shorthand.
Phil., Winter 1925": Philosophy course notes (in Gabelsberger shorthand with German headings) on the history of European philosophy, written both directions.
Chemie (1937)," contains notes in German and Gabelsberger shorthand on geography and geology, and notes in German on chemistry.
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 Literary | Kaanib.net*® Christian Web Community
Shorthand is a term referring to any abbreviated or symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a standard method of writing the language.
Typical shorthand systems provide symbols or abbreviations for words and common phrases which allow someone well trained in the system to write as fast as people speak.
Dutton Speedwords is a method of shorthand that had the dual function of also being an international auxilary language.
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 shorthand — FactMonster.com
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger - Gabelsberger, Franz Xaver, 1780–1849, German stenographer.
John Byrom - Byrom, John, 1692–1763, English shorthand expert and poet, educated at Trinity College,...
Sir Isaac Pitman - Pitman, Sir Isaac, 1813–97, English inventor of phonographic shorthand.
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 Kurt Gödel Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His interest in mathematics increased when in 1920 his older brother Rudolf (born 1902) left for Vienna to go to Medical School at the University of Vienna (UV).
Already during his teens Kurt studied Gabelsberger shorthand, Goethe's theory of colors and criticisms of Isaac Newton, and the writings of Kant.
At the age of 18 Kurt joined his brother Rudolf in Vienna and entered the UV.
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 Abugida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Several systems of shorthand use diacritics for vowels, but they do not have an inherent vowel, and are thus more similar to Thaana and Kurdish than to the Brahmic scripts.
The Gabelsberger shorthand system and its derivatives modify the following consonant to represent vowels.
The Pollard script, which was based on shorthand, also uses diacritics for vowels; the placements of the vowel relative to the consonant indicates tone.
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 shorthand — Infoplease.com
figured bass - figured bass, in music, a system of shorthand notation in which figures are written below the notes...
Jerome Charyn's Savage Shorthand is one of the few scholarly books that…" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-141754512.html?refid=ip_hf" target="_blank">Plucking the heart out of Isaac Babel's mystery.(Review Essay)(Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel)(Book review)
Standard life: shakey shorthand might get you by, but empty bluster and targets won't.(perspectives)
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 Kurt Godel: Collected Works, 3 vols. - book reviews Mind - Find Articles
They contain all of Godel's published writings (with the exception of a few excerpts from letters and a different version of remark 3 of 1972a), as well as some important unpublished manuscripts, lectures, lecture notes and extracts from scientific notebooks.
Each paper originally written in German or which is a German transcription from Gabelsberger shorthand is reproduced with an English translation on facing pages.
Volume III opens with an overview of Godel's Nachlass, also prepared by John Dawson, Jr., and includes an essay by Cheryl Dawson on Godel's Gabelsberger shorthand.
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 My Century And My Many Lives - Postscript 02 - Secret Notes Rediscovered
I am one of those ancients who not only knew Gabelsberger shorthand, but also actively used it.
During my student days I used to supplement my finances by taking shorthand records of speeches, lectures, and conferences, etc. I recall, for example, taking a shorthand record of a major speech by the Czech national leader and first Prime Minister of newly founded Czechoslovakia, Dr. Karel Kramar.
Klimek's letter was not only a welcome confirmation of my recollections of the encounter in Chicago; it also reminded me of the length of my life's span and the historic upheavals of this century, especially since the letter arrived on my 92
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 Godel 3
AMs (in Gabelsberger shorthand and German) of notes (for lecture draft?) n.d.
AMs draft fragments (in Gabelsberger shorthand and English), 6 pp., each numbered 2, 3, or 4 n.d.
AMsS (in English and Gabelsberger shorthand) of revisions, 9 pp.
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 Re: Unicode & Shorthand?
Shorthand writing systems usually are not used for information interchange.
Thus there seems to be no reason for encoding them.
There use to be special characters for frequently used grapheme clusters like prefixes, suffixes, and complete words.
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 Rotationally desensitized unistroke handwriting recognition (US6366697)
Glatte, "Gabelsberger Shorthand," Shorthand Systems of the World: A Concise Historical and Technical Review, New York.
Brooks et al., "Computer Transcription of Handwritten Shorthand as an Aid for the Deaf--a Feasibility study", Int.
Leedham et al., "On-Line Acquisition of Pitman's Handwritten Shorthand as a Means of Rapid Data Entry", date unknown, pp.
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 A cry of: waiter! And the fighting stopped | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
At first he was unable to read his father's 15 diaries sent back from the front in envelopes because they were written in an archaic form of German shorthand.
He managed to track down an elderly professor who could decipher the text - who then died.
Mr Zehmisch then taught himself Gabelsberger shorthand and began the translation.
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 Edward L. Arndt
The cemetery may have survived the devastating flood of 1931, but when Mao took over, each grave was leveled.
The family background, written by Edward Louis Arndt is called "Gottes Wunderwege." It was transcribed from Gabelsberger (an old German shorthand not used anymore) into German longhand in 1949 and translated by his youngest son, Edward J Arndt.
The first examples of Arndt's shorthand, an old German form of speedwriting called Gabelsberger, appears in this volume.
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