Pitman Shorthand, part 3 of 3 (Revised)

BACK TO PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjoigPf4IzE
BACK TO PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poflfNa543I

For more information, go to my Web site about it,

http://pitmanshorthand.homestead.com ("The Joy of Pitman Shorthand")

This is a revised form of the old video, to correct the focus.)

I made an unpolished little video to illustrate some basics of Pitman writing. At the time, I couldn't find anything else on YouTube about it, but here are two new videos by others:

A woman writes a religious text in Pitman Shorthand, though it is mostly vowel-less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3OyEzl8ZkM

A man writes a text in Spanish Pitman. Abbreviations are different, of course, assigned to common Spanish words, but the consonants are all the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMyNvZeWJOM

(More links to Pitman and other shorthand sites can be found by clicking the "Books and Links" button there.)

Also good is this guy's site, heavy in diagrams explaining the Pitman strokes:

http://www.shorthand.mkz.com/ ("Pitman for Geeks")

Pitman Shorthand was actually used to represent the written language of the Vogons, the bureaucratic and ugly aliens in the movie version of the science-fiction comedy, THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (2005). Those fortunate enough to know Pitman will recognize phrases in the movie like "Presidential Release Form", "Demolition Order", "Information Deleted" and a Vogon poster saying "Depressed? Try Destruction Therapy!"
http://www.onrec.com/content2/news.asp?ID=7440


For the Gregg shorthand system, go to:

http://www.shorthandshorthandshorthand.com
http://gregg.angelfishy.net

MUSIC: Music is from "Transfer Orbit" which is my own composition. The full version is on a music-only video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF6kjfbBARY

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pitman
• shorthand
• speed writing
• stenography
• tachygraphy

[ATGEC]

how do you know exactly which side to place the dot for a vowel? in the word set, i was thinking it would be placed on the right, but you put it on the left, why?

[Dracopol]

@ATGEC A circle-S doesn't count as a consonant because you can't put a vowel-mark on it. So it's the T that counts. And an e placed before a T makes et, and with the beginning circle-S it makes set. There are times when you must indicate a vowel before an S, so the curvy stroke-s, which looks like ), is used. Put a mark before ) and _, and it makes the word ask.

[shamsherali1]

waw its soo great video that u have uploaded for needy students of Pitman.. if it possible to plz in own net video plz upload how to deployed position for alphabets of pit man also show us a demo plz.

[Dracopol]

@shamsherali1 If you want to see the complete details of the Pitman Shorthand system, please search for a Web-page called "Long Live Pitman Shorthand". The lady who wrote that page has it all in the "Theory" section. My video is just an illustration of the skill. This video does not provide very many details but other people have.

[marcel1678]

Really good video! Please make some more... Thanks.

[Dracopol]

@marcel1678 Someone else has done the work. If you look for a page called "Long Live Pitman Shorthand", the whole method is detailed there.

[joycayenne]

I used this back in the 80s in various jobs in England. As a Secretary, you were paid more if you had shorthand

[dontanymore]

SUCH a great series of videos- thanks !

It's true. In my highschool, more than 50% of the kids take notes on their computers... but I can't wait to spend my summer working on some pitman, it'd be so useful for notes !

[karthikarur]

it is a wrong dictation to write,

please correct that Mr's OUT LINE