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Post by pierkiss on Feb 17, 2020 3:28:11 GMT
No shorthand. I did take typing/computers senior year of high school. I took the typing part seriously. I type over 90 WPM. My daughter showed me her online typing course they use at school. I tried it out in front of them and it blew their little minds. 😂
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Post by underwatermama on Feb 17, 2020 3:31:18 GMT
I graduated from HS in 1981. I took it in high school (along with all kinds of other random business classes) and then did more in secretarial school. I think I used it once on the job. I don't remember much about it any more, but I think I still have the book. This was for Gregg shorthand.
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Post by worldwanderer75 on Feb 17, 2020 4:11:07 GMT
My mom is 78 and still uses her shorthand. She loved it and I would always find notes scrawled in shorthand around the house growing up. I'm in my mid 40s and it was out of date when I was in HS.
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Post by Gennifer on Feb 17, 2020 4:11:53 GMT
I took it in HS, and graduated in ‘95. Pretty sure the only thing I remember is “and.”
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Post by kernriver on Feb 17, 2020 4:12:58 GMT
Gregg shorthand. 100 wpm. Many, many yeats ago. I can still hobble through a letter or two.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 4:36:18 GMT
I took it in high school. Hated it. Then I took a quick and class and ended up using it for years. I still use it when I'm taking my own notes.
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Post by katlady on Feb 17, 2020 5:45:22 GMT
No, I do not. My mom learned shorthand and she still had her textbook in the house when I was growing up. I tried to teach myself, but I had no motivation to study/practice much.
I don't know if it was taught in my high school. I was on the college track, so it was not an elective that I considered. I know I took typing in high school, but I can't recall if shorthand was offered.
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Post by magenta on Feb 17, 2020 6:24:33 GMT
It was never offered while I was in school, otherwise I would have taken it. My sister took it, but she graduated seven years before I did. I tried to teach myself with some guidance from her, but it didn't work out. I use to stare at the inside of her steno pad and try to memorize the symbols, not realizing there was more too it than that. I think typing was the most useful class I took in high school. I just wish they hadn't taught us to use two spaces after a period because 30 years after learning one space is standard, I can't break the habit.
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Post by freeatlast on Feb 17, 2020 11:00:48 GMT
In the all girls Catholic high school I attended, the college prep program required you to take typing and something called Notehand. IIRC, Notehand was not as "short" as shorthand. Words were written more as they were spelled and there were less shortcuts. It was a big help in college. To this day, I still remember a good portion of it and if I am taking notes, I revert back to it for most commonly used words.
ETA: my Mom who used shorthand in her job could read all of my notehand. I could read some of her shorthand.
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Post by KelleeM on Feb 17, 2020 12:07:48 GMT
I graduated in 1980. Shorthand was offered in the “business” track. I was in college prep and took “note hand”, which was a version of shorthand, for half of my senior year. The other half of the year was typing. I had typing in grade 7 also. I didn’t retain one bit of the note hand but the typing has served me well.
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Post by susancinpa on Feb 17, 2020 13:02:48 GMT
I graduated in 1990 and had Gregg shorthand (and typing) because I was in the Secretarial Course. I don't know if students in the Accounting Course had to take it or not. Other courses did not require it. My first office job out of high school it was very handy as I had to take minutes at meetings.
I can remember some of it, but find I can visualize it in my head much easier than trying to write it. Once in awhile I still find myself trying to use some of it when taking notes, but haven't "really" used it for a very long time.
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Post by momto4kiddos on Feb 17, 2020 13:20:55 GMT
I graduated in 86 and took a couple years of typing and shorthand. Went on to a well-known school for a "secretarial program" after high school, which in addition to other courses, had more shorthand and typing.
Unfortunately I haven't retained it, although I think I could pick it up quickly if I looked at it a bit. If I think of certain words I can picture how they'd look in shorthand so it would likely come back with a little effort.
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Post by alsomsknit on Feb 17, 2020 15:33:42 GMT
No, it wasn’t offered in my high school. I was terribly disappointed.
My cousin is 7 years older than me. She would work on shorthand while at our grandmother’s house. I was enthralled with it. It was something to look forward to when I got to high school.
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Post by Merge on Feb 17, 2020 15:44:47 GMT
No shorthand, but everyone was required to take typing/keyboarding in middle school. I think 8th grade. I graduated in 1990. I did temporary administrative and secretarial work in the early-mid 90s and was popular because I could type like 120 wpm.
I wish my kids had been required to take a typing class. They start them on computers really young and don't teach them how to type, so they use a really inefficient hunt and peck method. Takes much too long to type out a paper at the rate they go.
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Post by Nanner on Feb 17, 2020 16:30:19 GMT
I learned it, and used it at jobs I had back in the 80s. I haven't used it since, so can't remember a thing!
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Post by beepdave on Feb 17, 2020 16:35:48 GMT
I graduated in 1992 and took a semester my senior year. In order to pass the class we had to master the brief forms and abbreviations list and had three attempts to get 100 correct. I don't know how long the test had been administered, but apparently I was the first to get them all on the first try. It was an easy class for me. I had taken typing in 7th grade (86-87) on manual typewriters with smiley face stickers over the letters.
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Post by stampinfraulein on Feb 17, 2020 16:46:32 GMT
There's an interesting case in Ogden Utah right now where the notes from a 1950s era interview with a famous madam have been discovered but they are in a kind of shorthand that is rarely used anymore, so they're having a hard time finding anyone who can translate! Brother owner interview in shorthand
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 16:47:06 GMT
I did learn it 40 years ago...and don't think I could read it now......
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Post by anniefb on Feb 17, 2020 16:55:46 GMT
No, never learned it.
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Post by cme37 on Feb 17, 2020 19:50:47 GMT
I graduated HS in 1984 and took it. I even went to a FBLA state competition for it. I still have some pin I received for speed. I used it for note taking in college, but I don't remember any of it now.
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Post by tyra on Feb 17, 2020 20:11:11 GMT
I graduated in '94. It wasn't officially taught in school, but one of my teachers insisted that we learn for the class she taught. She would actually collect our class journals weekly and grade them based on our shorthand skills. AP Humanities. WTF. I am still salty that my GPA was messed up over flipping SHORTHAND. Not over the material that I produced, test scores, projects, etc. No. Shorthand.
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Post by bdawnb on Feb 17, 2020 22:54:01 GMT
Yes and I find it incredibly helpful in taking notes and writing things I don’t want others to read. No one else around me ever knows it.
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Post by kate on Feb 17, 2020 23:02:27 GMT
It wasn't offered at my high school in the 80's. My mom took it in high school and used it her whole life, even though she was a nurse!
I worked at a Swiss bank in the late 90's, and the CEO required that his secretary know shorthand.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Feb 17, 2020 23:10:20 GMT
It wasn't offered at high school, but I took "Speedwriting" in business college rather than the Gregg shorthand that my mother took in business college. I used it to take notes for many years but NEVER had anyone dictate a letter to me. But it was good for taking notes and researching. Used it for many years but then purposefully dropped it because it was messing up my spelling ability!
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Post by mama2three on Feb 18, 2020 4:22:10 GMT
It wasn't offered at high school, but I took "Speedwriting" in business college rather than the Gregg shorthand that my mother took in business college. I used it to take notes for many years but NEVER had anyone dictate a letter to me. But it was good for taking notes and researching. Used it for many years but then purposefully dropped it because it was messing up my spelling ability! I graduated mid 1980s and took a similar course in 8th grade. Not Gregg Shorthand but more of a speedwriting course. I used it through HS and college and still use it daily today when taking notes for work. One of the best electives IMO
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Post by Jili on Feb 18, 2020 6:03:39 GMT
Shorthand was offered at my high school (in the 80s) as part of the business department course offerings. It was a double-period class. For that reason, I can't imagine that too many people, if any, would have taken it.
That said, I think it would be cool to know. I'm not sure that I see much utility for it now, though.
I took Typing I in the 9th grade. Manual typewriters, correction tape, the whole bit. Most everyone did. Then my father insisted I take Typing II for the one elective spot I had in the 10th grade (didn't get another one until senior year). I hated having to do it because the only people who did were the cigarette-smoking girls who had no intention of going on to college. Not my crowd at the time. I will say, though, that I got along well with them and we all had each others' backs where our cruel teacher was concerned (that word seems harsh, but it is a fact, unfortunately). We graduated to using IBM Selectric machines, and thanks to that class, I am now a rapid-fire typist.
I know I'm off-topic a bit, but it makes me sad that my daughters can't really type the proper way, even though they have been taught. They both just find it easier and faster to use their index fingers. I work in a public school (where they still teach cursive, though the teachers hate it because they need every instructional minute to get all of the curriculum in before the State tests come around-- the pressure is real). Keyboarding instruction used to take place at least a couple of times per week, but now it's more of a 'you can work on the keyboarding program if your classwork is complete" kind of option. Our curriculum powers-that-be have blown this off as "we're finding that students really don't need the traditional instruction like they used to now that they use on-screen keyboards so often". Personally, I think it's a cop-out and I find this much more bothersome than the fact that cursive (and shorthand, for that matter) are either not taught or given little more than a cursory run-through.
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 18, 2020 15:45:47 GMT
I took it in my senior year of high school (I think it was only a semester class).. so I took it either in 85 or 86. I can't remember ONE single character from it. I can recognize what it looks like but that is about it. Thank goodness it was never anything I needed in getting a job. They were using recorders by then. (I'm 51 and graduated in 1986)
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 18, 2020 16:22:26 GMT
It wasn't taught when I went to school. They did teach speed writing and I still use it to this day. It's an abbreviated from of cursive.
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 18, 2020 16:56:04 GMT
Shorthand was offered at my high school (in the 80s) as part of the business department course offerings. It was a double-period class. For that reason, I can't imagine that too many people, if any, would have taken it. What is a double period class? One class for two periods I am assuming? Never heard of that!! Lol
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Post by Jili on Feb 18, 2020 17:56:12 GMT
Shorthand was offered at my high school (in the 80s) as part of the business department course offerings. It was a double-period class. For that reason, I can't imagine that too many people, if any, would have taken it. What is a double period class? One class for two periods I am assuming? Never heard of that!! Lol Yes. When I was in high school we had a 9 period day. A double period class was a big commitment and typically kept you from taking other things in that time period.
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