Re: Stenography
Re: Stenography
- Subject: Re: Stenography
- From: Peter Teeson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:18:02 -0400
On 2012-04-02, at 8:46 AM, vincent habchi wrote:
> Le 2 avr. 2012 à 14:37, "Reaves, Timothy" <email@hidden> a écrit :
>> He wants to write an app that will take a picture of shorthand and turn it into text.
> Stenography (Greek stenos-: reduced) is an obsolete system of script secretaries used to take notes on the fly.
> I’m not sure, but I think it is a syllabic script. I don’t think anybody uses it anymore: it has been superseded by Siri :)
Indeed. I had a secretary who knew both Pitman and Gregg stenography methods. That dates me for sure.
(She would then go to a typewriter to produce the letter or article - hehehehe)
Perhaps a current use of a similar mechanism would be a court reporter or the Congressional floor reporters
walking around to each person speaking.
> Steganography comes from Greek steganos, roof, wherefore it’s use for obfuscated communications.
Fascinating article.. thanks.
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