what is short hand? give some examples?

Answer 1

Short hand is a way of taking notes or writing using abbreviations, partial words, pictures, numbers and symbols. Short hand varies from person to person depeneding on how well they can understand their shortened version of words and that sort.
"Communication can be seperated into three different types: Interpersonal Communication, Intrapersonal Communication, and Extrapersonal Communication."
If I was taking notes and using short hand I would do this (personally):
"Comm seprted in2 prts 3- Interper., Intraper., Extraper. Comm."
So again it all dependes on your preference and how you think you will understand later on.

Answer 2

I assume you mean what was used way back when the boss gave "dictation." The reason why we have those strange shaped notebooks called "steno pads" which are tall and narrow with that line up the middle of the page and designed to flip the pages over. These books were used by writing in the left column, then the right and flipping the page over and continuing on the next page, and then at the end of the book, turning the whole thing over and using the backside of the already used pages. The one method which caught on and became the standard was Gregg Shorthand. See the wiki link in a previous answer. I took a class in Gregg Shorthand when I was a freshman in high school in 1962. It came in handy to take notes. Essentially, it is this, a series of symbols blended together to form a graphic. For example, a letter N was a short horizontal line, a letter M a longer horizontal line, a letter E a small circlular loop, a letter A a larger circular loop, all blended together, like ME being a longer horizontal line closed with a small loop on the end. AM would start with a larger loop and end with the longer horizontal line. In many words, vowels were dropped, like MOTHER becoming M-TH-R. There were special symbols for common things like TH and ING. So, M-TH-R would be only 3 symbols blended and MOTHERING would be 4 symbols, M-TH-R-ING. When taking shorthand a good stenographer (That is what a professional was called, not a secretary, though secretaries were often also stenographers.) could keep up with people in a normal friendly style conversation. I didn't keep it up after I finished school. I really didn't have much use once I joined the Navy. Sigh. NOW, I wish I had not given it up... I would love to be able to take verbatim notes at times so I could literally quote back what I heard, word for word...

By the way, a court recorder uses a special kind of shorthand done with a machine, played much like a piano, with various combinations of keys producing symbols on a narrow strip of fan-folded paper. I had a friend who was one of these reporters and also a legal secretary who typed the transcipts afterwards. It was from her that I found out each court recorder "customizes" the way they actually use the machine, so not all recorders can read what another recorder has written with their machine. Court recorders have to be FAST. This lady I knew could run her machine (for practice, she would record dialog from TV and talk radio programs) and be able to carry on a conversation with me at the same time. an original multitasker...

OR, do you mean something like this?

((RU)/18)QTpi? [Are you over 18 cutiepie?]

{P.S. a re-edit) I was doing a re-edit of my post, so this answer comes AFTER "roadkill" in sequence who is referring to me, I think, since I mentioned the American Gregg Shorthand, which I was locating the books for after my initial posting so I could add a later correction to a possible error I had made. OK, so I showed my age of 58 years! So there! I'm going to start practiicing again. Thanks go out to "roadkill" for prompting me to resume my use of shorthand! And if I was not the only one to mention Gregg, then the other person is probably as old as I am!

Answer 3

Someone is giving away their age. Gregg's short hand is a good textbook if you want to learn it.

It is based on phonetic symbols, you use the symbols to represent sounds of words, you don't even have to know how to spell the word just how it sounds. It is based on sign language for the deaf.

It is also obsolete, so good luck finding that Gregg's textbook. It is also no longer taught in secretarial schools. I don't know anyone under of the age of 50 that actually knows how to read or write in shorthand.

Answer 4

Short hand is a series of squiggles that take less time to write out than regular writing

Answer 5

Check this website - it even shows the symbols that are used by various forms of this short form of writing that allows you to take dictation from the spoken word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand

Answer 6

short hand is a great way to take notes. the most common way to short hand is to skip the un important vowels and smaller words or "filler" words. so if you were taking a notes on what i wrote it would be...

shrt hnd is grt wy to tk nts. mst cmmn wy is to skp un-imprtnt vwls....

Answer 7

IT USES SYMBOLS FOR LETTERS AND CONCOCTS SEVERAL TOGETHER TO MEAN SOME PHRASES....IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GIVE SAMPLES OF SHORTHAND ONLINE BECAUSE KEYBOARDS DO NOT CONTAIN SHORTHAND SYMBOLS......... GREGG SHORTHAND IS A METHOD ....GUESS IF YOU TYPE THAT IN YOUR ADDRESS LINE YOU WILL FIND SAMPLES OR YOU CAN GET THE BOOK.....

Answer 8

u mean lik dis? wht kind of eg do u nd?

Answer 9

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