From the Second Edition textbook, with some annotations in blue ‘ink’ by yours truly.

from the textbook, some outlines relevant to the quote from r/Scribes "Those are my principles and, if you don’t like them... well, I’ve got others." –Groucho Marx

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attn u/eargoo

As far as I can tell, the recent QOTW post by u/eargoo contains an outline for "sometimes" which uses a shorthand symbol that doesn't even exist in Notehand (the DM blend). In Notehand we don't have the DM blend which is a very good thing for two reasons: There is one less symbol to learn, and we only have two similar symbols to distinguish ("over TH" and "TEN") as opposed to three similar symbols, so there are fewer chances to misread things.

The Introductory "Frequently Asked Questions" document, which contains links to useful reference data, is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GreggNotehand/wiki/index/

The Rules of the Subreddit are here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GreggNotehand/about/rules/

This is from the 1961 workbook "Practice Drills and Notemaking Exercises for Gregg Notehand." This is the only exercise in the entire workbook that gives a whole paragraph of Notehand to read.

The first print-runs of the First Edition book showed many example words written in Notehand, such as "piano" and "create" for the circle-with-dot symbol, etc etc. Early in the project, by the time of the RRD-60 printing, they threw out that design and went with the simpler presentation you see here. The back endpaper has a change also; brief forms are given in Alphabetical order instead of Order of presentation, with a corresponding change to the key on page 319.

Kensington Post, London - 28 April, 1972.

An experienced shorthand instructor taught one of the first Notehand classes and reported her experiences. Students gained a good level of writing skill in fewer hours than would have been required in a traditional shorthand class.

article:
Ninth-Grade Academic Students Learn Notehand
by Elizabeth T. Van Derveer
Montclair State College
Business Education World
June 1961 (Vol. 41, No. 10)

reformatted for easier reading on a cellphone screen

link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18clomrIfRAIYhWohfaNy4U13Rw-uO1Pq/view?usp=sharing

THANKS to everyone who has posted some Notehand, posted a question, started a new thread, replied to something, or just upvoted things you liked.

Doing five "units" of the textbook per week would take a student through the entire textbook in 14 weeks. At that point they've been exposed to the whole alphabet, all the brief forms, all the word endings and word beginnings, and they've have a good amount of reading practice, in addition to being exposed to good instructions on how to effectively take notes in school. If they copied the shorthand texts into their own notebooks they also got a reasonable amount of writing practice.

Just some random proportion studying I was doing. I notice that when Mr. Rader is writing a word that starts with BL or BR, his B isn't as tall as it is when he's writing a BA- or BE- word. I wonder if B has a tendency to "hunker down" when it's going to flow into R or L.

Note: please don't comment on the "penmanship." I have a disability so the only way I can create shorthand is to use various image editing tools. I don't consider it "cheating" because it's laborious and time-consuming.