Shorthand (demand, college, writing, skill)

[nuts2uiam]

We were participating in a zoom call recently and one member of the group mentioned that she was the secretary for a non profit and as such took the meeting notes. She indicated that she typed the notes as the meeting was going on. I personally can't takes notes as I scribble things down so as not to miss them and then I can't read my own writing. Another mentioned that she does notes in short hand. Gregg as opposed to Pitman. We were talking about how the world has changed with technology and the following questions came up.

Does anyone still teach shorthand?
If so where?
IF not when did it stop?
Does anyone get called in to "take dictation?

We had a good laugh about how old we were.

[NeedSun25]

We had a secretary at our district office that took meeting notes in shorthand. Was the craziest looking thing. She retired maybe 3-4 years ago.

[aquietpath]

Shorthand was my favorite subject - I could write over 140 wpm back in the day. I haven't used it in years, but did have jobs where it was used every day. It does seem to me that it may be a dying skill since people can now dictate whatever they want via voice recognition on the computer and don't need a secretary to take down their comments verbatim.

[TMSRetired]

Shorthand pretty much fell out of style along with secretaries themselves when the personal computer started popping up on everyone's desk.

[LoriNJ]

I still use some of the shorthand notation, although not a lot of it. I used to get called-in for dictation in the late 70s-early 80s. I suspect no one is doing that these days!



There are YouTube videos if you are interested in learning Gregg Shorthand.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...regg+shorthand

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by nuts2uiam

We were participating in a zoom call recently and one member of the group mentioned that she was the secretary for a non profit and as such took the meeting notes. She indicated that she typed the notes as the meeting was going on. I personally can't takes notes as I scribble things down so as not to miss them and then I can't read my own writing. Another mentioned that she does notes in short hand. Gregg as opposed to Pitman. We were talking about how the world has changed with technology and the following questions came up.

Does anyone still teach shorthand?
If so where?
IF not when did it stop?
Does anyone get called in to "take dictation?

We had a good laugh about how old we were.

I went to a secretarial school in 1978. The school is now a 2-year college. We were promised free lifetime brushup courses in typing and Gregg shorthand. Wonder what would happen if I showed up and demanded that!

I still use it for taking notes, but it's mixed with regular letters.

I did take dictation for the first few years.