From 4ddc5e87d39d38a6ef3546d05d96923ffd437288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zane Meyers Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:24:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2025-11-17 07:24:18 --- 2025-11-16.md | 25 +++++++ Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand.md | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ shorthand.md | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++--- the-book-of-the-new-sun.md | 16 ++++- 4 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 2025-11-16.md create mode 100644 Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand.md diff --git a/2025-11-16.md b/2025-11-16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4906734 --- /dev/null +++ b/2025-11-16.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +id: +aliases: [] +tags: + - authorship/original + - destiny/permanent + - status/draft + - type/daily +title: 2025-11-16 +--- +# 2025-11-16 + +## 2025-11-16 08:09 + +Yesterday evening, +while I was reading [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand]], +for the first time practicing its lessons, +trying to [[learn-shorthand]], +I was growing frustrated with the terminology the text uses +to express English phonology. + +I found a great article: +[Guess What? They're ALL Silent Letters!](https://mbsteven.edublogs.org/2018/05/05/guess-what-theyre-all-silent-letters/) +that effectively expresses the pain I feel +every time someone says "silent e". diff --git a/Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand.md b/Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..791c050 --- /dev/null +++ b/Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand.md @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +--- +id: +aliases: + - gregg notehand +tags: [] +title: Gregg Notehand +subtitle: A Personal-Use Shorthand & Integrated Instruction in How to Make Notes +author: Leslie, Louis A. AND Zoubek, Charles E. AND Poe, Roy W. AND Deese, James +edition: Second +year: 1968 +publisher: McGraw-Hill, Inc. +--- +# Gregg Notehand + +## Part One + +### 1. Fundamental principles of notemaking + +### 2-8. Notehand principles + +### 9. Getting ready to study + +### 10. Planning your study time + +### 11. Select the right notebook for notemaking + +### 12. Notemaking from reading + +### 13. Rules for remembering what you read + +### 14. Notehand recall + +### 15. Finding the central idea in your reading + +### 16. Finding the central idea in your reading (continued) + +### 17. Selecting related ideas + +### 18. Using the central idea to build your headings + +### 19. Read before you make notes + +### 20. Notehand recall + +### 21. Making notes in your own words + +### 22. Brevity in making notes in your own words + +### 23. Organizing notes in narrative summaries + +### 24. Organizing notes in outline form + +### 25. Leave wide margins + +### 26. Notehand recall + +### 27. Use longhand headings in your notes + +### 28. Use signals for "must remember" items + +### 29. Making verbatim notes + +### 30. The notemaker is an active listener + +### 31. Getting the most out of your listening + +### 32. Writing names in your notes + +### 33. Notehand recall + +### 34. Rules for effective listening + +### 35. Rules for effective listening (continued) + +### 36. Preserve difficult longhand spellings + +### 37. Showing contrasts and comparisons in your notes + +### 38. Definitions, background information, and examples + +### 39. Notehand recall + +### 40. Using notehand in original writing + +### 41. Making rough drafts + +### 42. Footnotes + +### 43. Special uses of notehand in original writing + +### 44. How to make notes for research papers + +### 45. Getting ready to make notes from research + +### 46. Making notes from research + +### 47. Writing the research paper + +### 48. Notehand recall + +## Part Two + +### 49. Reviewing and preparing for examinations + +### 50. Making derived notes + +### 51. Making notes of class discussions + +### 52. Making notes of other meetings and discussions + +### 53. Making notes as a recorder + +### 54. Writing the minutes + +### 55. Indexing your notes + +### 56. Disposition of your notes + +### 57-70. Notehand principles + +### Key to Gregg Notehand + +### Index to Gregg Notehand \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/shorthand.md b/shorthand.md index 5155c7d..ea73aff 100644 --- a/shorthand.md +++ b/shorthand.md @@ -21,15 +21,75 @@ typing using a special chording keyboard. ## Gregg Notehand Gregg Notehand is a simplified form of Gregg Shorthand. -It is described in the namesake [[Leslie1968GreggNotehand2e]] +It is described in the namesake [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand]] -```bibtex -@book{Leslie1968GreggNotehand2e, - title={Gregg Notehand}, - subtitle={A Personal-Use Shorthand & Integrated Instruction in How to Make Notes} - author={Leslie, Louis A. AND Zoubek, Charles E. AND Poe, Roy W. AND Deese, James}, - edition={Second}, - year={1968}, - publisher={McGraw-Hill, Inc.}, -} -``` +### Critiques + +The lessons use sounds-like-(letter)-in-(word) type phoneme definitions, +and generally suffer from a facile understanding of phonology. +Totally unacceptable for a proposed alternative alphabet, +but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing. + +> [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]] +> **Silent letters omitted.** +> In the English language many words contain letters that are not pronounced. +> In Notehand these silent letters are omitted, +> and only those sounds in a word are written that are actually pronounced. +> For example, +> in the word say, the y would not be written because it is not pronounced; +> say would be written s-a. +> The word face would be written f-a-s; +> the final e would be omitted because it is not pronounced, +> and the c would be represented by the s stroke because it is pronounced s. +> +> What letters in the following words would not be written in Notehand +> because they are not pronounced? +> +> * day +> * eat +> * main +> * mean +> * save +> * steam + +*** + +> [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]] +> Gregg Notehand is easy to learn---easier, actually, than longhand. Why? +> In longhand, there are many different ways of writing a given letter; +> in Gregg Notehand, there is only one way. + +This is a baffling first paragraph. +Without further clarification, +the text seems to be implying that students learning longhand +are expected to learn to read and write +many forms of the same letter, +where reality is the opposite. + +In fact, it is plain to see from the lessons in the text +that Gregg Notehand had far more individual character variation +than is accepted of the English alphabet. + +The text does not specify winding direction for circular forms +(e.g. "a" and "e"), +nor is the illustrator consistent between words. +For many words, neither option is more intuitive, +and the choice _radically_ changes its form. + +More damningly, in Lesson 26 we learn +the "s" stroke _is allowed to be written backwards._ + +It's a very strange choice, +claiming that a shorthand is less ambiguous +than the writing system it replaces. +I'm sure its possible, +but English doesn't have enough frills to cut off. +Shorthand trades certainty for speed, +that's the whole point. + +*** + +Some words, especially those more than one syllable, +I believe are illustrated incorrectly +based on preceding text and examples. +"Navy" is particularly egregious. diff --git a/the-book-of-the-new-sun.md b/the-book-of-the-new-sun.md index b24f808..fa0cfc3 100644 --- a/the-book-of-the-new-sun.md +++ b/the-book-of-the-new-sun.md @@ -417,6 +417,14 @@ that Severian notices it isn't simply a gauntlet. > He stirred and muttered, > "We must get power to the compressors before the air goes bad." +Jonas is, in fact, no man at all, but an android. +[[wolfe_1981_claw#XVIII - Mirrors]] + +Jonas is from the relatively near future. +Less time had passed from his perspective, +likely due to extensive sub-light travel, +and/or from spending time near larger gravity wells. + ### Hethor Also a spacefarer @@ -427,7 +435,13 @@ Severian's predecessor to the autarchy. He takes several forms in Severian's narrative before they meet in truth. -Proprietor of the House Azure +Master Rudesind, the painting cleaner +at the Citadel and then the House Absolute +Maybe? + +The proprietor of the House Azure +who is also [[#Vodalus]]'s contact +in the House Absolute ## Creatures