a funny thing abt the "today's secretary" magazine is that a bunch of pages are written in shorthand, i guess both for practice purposes but also perhaps for anti-boss anonymity (eg the letters page is all this way, and so is a mysterious feature called "far from the harem") https://archive.org/details/todays-secretary-sept-1955-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.-58
my favorite colors backwards
- xe/xer, per/per, it/its, they/them
hi! my only other social media is tumblr so my gf says i'll fit in fine here. i'm in my 20s and live in the united states, if you want more info than that then you can read my posts cuz i'm not putting it here (put in some fucking effort to dox me lmao) <3
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wow. I tried to learn Gregg once, couldn't make it work, and I can't remember anything about it >_<
omg this is incredible (and also if you ever need a transcription, i know Gregg shorthand and am pretty adept at it...)
Oh my god, learning a written language for secretary work them using it to complain about the bosses that don't know it is incredible.
IIRC, that's more or less how onna-de became modern day hiragana?
Some forms of caoshu approach shorthand but a) I think the term "shorthand" tends to imply more drastic simplifications than just writing quickly (which gets stigmatised as "chickenscratch" or "doctor's handwriting") and b) I don't think the Japanese caoshu ancestral to modern hiragana was one of them - it was just a stylistic thing in Japan that men used kaishu and women used caoshu.
