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Stenography
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek ''stenos'' (narrow) and ''graphein'' (to write). It has also been called brachygraphy, from Greek ''brachys'' (short), and tachygraphy, from Greek ''tachys'' (swift, speedy), depending on whether compression or speed of writing is the goal. Many forms of shorthand exist. A typical shorthand system provides symbols or abbreviations for words and common phrases, which can allow someone well-trained in the system to write as quickly as people speak. Abbreviation methods are alphabet-based and use different abbreviating approaches. Many journalists use shorthand writing to quickly take notes at press conferences or other similar scenarios. In the computerized world, several autocomplete programs, standalone or integrated in text editors, based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Shelton (stenographer)
Thomas Shelton (1600/01–1650(?)) was an English stenography, stenographer and the inventor of a much-used British 17th- and 18th-century stenography. Life The 1647 edition of Thomas Shelton's ''Tachygraphie'' contains a portrait giving his age as 46, implying that he was born in 1600/01. Nothing sure is known about his origin and education, but it was supposed that he came from the well-known Shelton family which owned much land in Norfolk. In the English Civil War (1642–49), Shelton stood on the side of the Parliament of England, Parliament; his religious sympathies were for Puritanism. Thomas Shelton made his living from shorthand, teaching the subject in London over a period of thirty years while he developed his stenographical systems. Shelton knew the stenography of John Willis (stenographer), John Willis and took over its geometrical basic principle for his own shorthand. He published several books about shorthand which he sold from his house. Shelton's shorthand Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tironian Notes
Tironian notes () are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand (Tironian shorthand) dating from the 1st century BCE and named after Marcus Tullius Tiro, Tiro, a personal secretary to Marcus Tullius Cicero, who is often credited as their inventor. Tiro's system consisted of about 4,000 signs, extended to 5,000 signs by others. During the medieval period, Tiro's notation system was taught in European monasteries and expanded to a total of about 13,000 signs. The use of Tironian notes lasted into the 17th century. A few Tironian signs are still used today. Note on sign counts Tironian notes can be themselves composites (Typographic ligature, ligatures) of simpler Tironian notes, the resulting compound being still shorter than the word it replaces. This accounts in part for the large number of attested Tironian notes, and for the wide variation in estimates of the total number of Tironian notes. Further, the "same" sign can have other varian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eclectic Shorthand By Cross
Eclectic may refer to: Music * ''Eclectic'' (Eric Johnson and Mike Stern album), 2014 * ''Eclectic'' (Big Country album), 1996 * Eclectic Method, name of an audio-visual remix act * Eclecticism in music, the conscious use of styles alien to the composer's own nature * '' Eclectic Guitar'', a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins * ''Morning Becomes Eclectic'', a radio program in Santa Monica, California * '' Sounds Eclectic'', a radio program * Eclectic Discs, a record label renamed to Esoteric Recordings * Eclectic Reel, a collection of music by Italian composer Stefano Lentini Organizations * Eclectic Society (Christian), an English missionary and anti-slavery society * Eclectic Society (fraternity), an American fraternity, Phi Nu Theta Other * Eclectic, Alabama, a village * Eclecticism, a philosophical movement * Eclecticism in architecture, a nineteenth and twentieth-century architectural style * Eclecticism in art, mixed styles * Eclectic approach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Timothy Bright
Timothie Bright, M.D. (1551?–1615) was an English physician and clergyman, the inventor of modern shorthand. Early life Bright was born in or about 1551, probably in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. He matriculated as a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, 'impubes, æt. 11,' on 21 May 1561, and graduated B.A. in 1567–8. In 1572 he was at Paris, probably pursuing his medical studies, when he narrowly escaped the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by taking refuge in the house of Francis Walsingham. In his dedication of ''Animadversions on Scribonius'' (1584) to Sir Philip Sidney (1584), Bright remarks that he had only seen him once, on that occasion. Physician Bright graduated M.B. at Cambridge in 1574, received a licence to practise medicine in the following year, and was created M.D. in 1579. For some years after this, he appears to have lived at Cambridge, but was living at Ipswich in 1584. He was one of those who, on 1 October 1585, witnessed the statutes of Emmanuel Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
