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+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".

Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand.md

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+---
+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

shorthand.md

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 ## 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
+### Critiques
-@book{Leslie1968GreggNotehand2e,
+
-  title={Gregg Notehand},
+The lessons use sounds-like-(letter)-in-(word) type phoneme definitions,
-  subtitle={A Personal-Use Shorthand & Integrated Instruction in How to Make Notes}
+and generally suffer from a facile understanding of phonology.
-  author={Leslie, Louis A. AND Zoubek, Charles E. AND Poe, Roy W. AND Deese, James},
+Totally unacceptable for a proposed alternative alphabet,
-  edition={Second},
+but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing.
-  year={1968},
+
-  publisher={McGraw-Hill, Inc.},
+> [[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.

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