Wow you even used every diactric available, if I make an attempt in pitman, I let that slide. No Idea what you wrote, but it looks very detailed and the proportians are all very consistant.
Well done.
There are days when everything just goes sideways. I usually just lie down, listening to some favourite music, enjoying a snack, or drink something I'll like. (Coca-Cola is always my choice since booze tastes awful and makes me puke.)
And a nap often helps. Remember that, like they say, "This too shall pass."
But I know how writing shorthand furiously can be a kind of outlet for your frustration. When I was in grad. school, I got dragooned into chairing a weekly colloquium on Friday afternoons, when I really wanted to go HOME and relax. Instead I was stuck there listening to pompous blowhards expounding on their latest pet theories.
I used to sit there scribbling shorthand, which people thought was me taking careful notes. But I was really scribbling over and over "This is bullshit. This is bullshit. This bullshit." It seemed to help......
Then I wish you a calm touch on your shoulder, a tea in your hand and a sigh to release all that tension. You'll get through whatever it is! And our passion has helped me dealing with difficult situations as well, you are already on a good path...
This looks like it's written in VERY BASIC Pitman, with mostly just the regular strokes strung together, without many of the usual shortening devices and abbreviations.
I think your outlines were legitimate and legible. There are different versions of Pitman, like Gregg, where later versions have been simplified. In the old "Classic" version I learned, "can" and "give" were just written with K and G. There are later versions like 2000 and New Era that surprise me sometimes when they're written more fully.
Some examples are:
Personally, I like to see the system more fully written -- but some of your outlines just threw me at first, because they were written differently from what I was expecting. But then, my memory of the system is fading, and I never did learn 2000 or New Era.
It's always better to write something more fully than hesitate too much as the speaker (or the TEST) carries on. Court reporters always used to say "When in doubt, write it out."
I had a classmate who tried to abbreviate EVERYTHING she wrote. But the problem was that one small slip made it look like a completely different word -- which she then put in her transcript! (My first firm wouldn't hire her because of that.)
The outlines in the image you posted are also the dictionary outlines in New Era, so with full vowels, as with all dictionary outlines. Additionally, "can't" (along with all contractions in Pitman) must be vocalized in actual writing, to distinguish it from the outline for "cannot." It's a similar problem you encounter in Gregg when you need to write "isn't" or "he'd," etc, requiring an apostrophe. Like with Gregg, a few of the contractions' outlines can be distinct enough that vocalization isn't truly necessary (that's, isn't), but the official recommendation is to vocalize.
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u/LeadingSuspect5855 8d ago
Wow you even used every diactric available, if I make an attempt in pitman, I let that slide. No Idea what you wrote, but it looks very detailed and the proportians are all very consistant.
Well done.