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
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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.
