Is it even used anymore? I haven't seen it or heard of it since I was a kid and my mom was learning it.

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

For those who don't know what I'm asking about:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.htm

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

I think it has probably died from competition with dinky tape recorders (dictaphone thingumys).

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'79 280SE
'87 560SEL
'83 280CE
'01 Nissan Micra
'98 VW Passat
'83 911 turbo

Computers killed it

Yeah, that's what I figured too. I saw it being referred to in some old movie over the weekend, and started wondering about it. One of those forgotten things.

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

I haven't seen it in a while myself. My mom knows it, as she worked as a secretary for a number of years. I remember seeing little notes she'd written to herself as I grew up. She was the only person that could read them because she had written them in shorthand! I suppose it'd be a great way to be able to write down stuff you don't want anyone else to be able to read.

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Current:
2014 VW Tiguan SEL 4Motion 43,000 miles.

2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's).

Past:
2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13.
1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07.
1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06.
1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation.
1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver.

Considering the lack of attention paid to penmanship (now there's a term destined for the archaic term bin) these days, you don't need shorthand to confound most readers of longhand.

Ya got that right. My handwriting sucks! I can't even read it anymore

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

I think I lost my penmanship in the record store...

or it could have been the unforseen neurological side-effect of exposure to "White-Out" while typing those term papers.

R U kding me, 4 get it.

my mom used to know Gregg shorthand. As mentioned, this skill has been obsoleted by tape recorders and voice recognition software.

another skill which is in short supply is Morse Code. Unlike shorthand, this is a skill that can come in handy in emergencies. For this purpose, I only know "SOS": ... --- ...

I kinda learned Morse code in Boy Scouts(let's not go there again) as a teenager. I knew the alphabet, but couldn't send & recieve as fast as you see on movies

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

So, it's not a totally dead issue!

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

Morse code.

The world's first digital communications mode.

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Palangi

2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



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