HISTORY OF PITMAN SHORTHAND

Stenography is any system of quick and concise writing that allows transcription.
a speech at the same speed at which it is spoken. To do this, strokes are usually used.
abbreviations and special characters to represent letters, words and even
phrases.

The Our Father in various systems of the 19th century.

Generally, shorthand writing omits parts of the texts and a text collected by a
Shorthand cannot be easily understood by someone who has not previously listened.
the original text. Therefore, the shorthand writers must later write the text
shorthand in regular writing.

Learning shorthand is relatively easy, but its fast use requires a lot of
practice. It is commonly confused with stenography

History of shorthand
The origins of shorthand date back to the time of the Greek historian Xenophon, who
he used this technique to transcribe the life of Socrates.

The shorthand of the Greek words taxos (speed, quickness) and grafos (writing) is
It is worth using simpler signs than those of ordinary writing to write as quickly as
it is spoken. The Phoenicians and Greeks used it, and in Rome since the time of Cicero, according to
Plutarch. In Rome, they were called Tironian notes, as they were used and perfected by Tiro, a slave (and
then freed) by Cicero, from approximately 70 B.C. A system similar to that of
The pull seems to be attributed to Maecenas, according to Dio Cassius. Shortly after, the system
It was arranged in the form of a dictionary by Seneca, being called Notes of Tyron and Seneca. Without
embargo, fell into oblivion with the invasion of the barbarians[citation needed]Later, it has
restored in the Modern Age. It began again in England, year 1588 by Bright.
It continued through France, Holland, and Germany since the 17th century. It arrived in Italy in the 18th century.
And to Spain in 1800. The true inventor of Spanish shorthand is the Valencian.
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Francisco Martí, in 1802. His system is considered the most perfect of the
known until the 19th century.

The term was first used by Thomas Shelton in 1641, then by Coulon de
Thévenot in 1776 and finally adopted by Martí. The Englishman John Willis, inventor of
the first geometric system, I had named stenography
Uses of shorthand
Shorthand is commonly used in trials, in which case it is used to
stenographers or shorthand writers to capture in writing what is spoken. It is also used by
secretaries and administration assistants to jot down notes, letters, messages, and requests
that they receive. Likewise, its use is common for recording parliamentary debates, and for the
live broadcasting of television programs that require subtitling, for example,
with the Closed Caption (CC) system. Although theoretically it is a very useful tool for
A student when attending classes to take notes usually doesn't use it.

Pitman Shorthand
Unlike Gregg shorthand, the Pitman style uses the lines of a sheet; this
it means that the position of the symbols is important in relation to the horizontals of the
Writing tablet. It uses a set of symbols different from Gregg.

Isaac Pitman was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1813 and died in Bath in 1897. He learned
the Taylor system, and I was thinking of editing it with the reforms I had introduced, but a
Your friend, Bagsters, suggested the idea of creating your own system.

In 1837, Pitman launched his famous work Stenographic Soundhand. Despite the fact that the signs
Although the works of both authors may be similar, they are very different systems.

Although it made use of resources that had already been used by other authors, the writing
Phonetics had already been used by Tiffin (1750), Lyle (1762), Roe (1802), and Towndrow.
(1831); similar signs for similar sounds had been used by Hervey
(1779); the positions had been used by Farr (1819) and Taylor; the fine strokes and
thick ones date back to the time of Tirón (50 B.C.); and he was not even the first to use it
small circle to represent the S², was the first to organize them systematically,
based on a scientific analysis of your language.

In 1840, the second edition appeared, titled Phonography, or Writing by Sound;

In 1863, the 11th edition of his work appears in London: A manual of Phonography, or,
Writing by Sound: a natural method of writing by signs that represent spoken sounds;
adapted to the English language as a complete system or Phonetic Short-hand. In it, its
The author says: "Who, being in the writing profession, has not wished at some point
express through two or three strokes of the pen what is currently required
So much time and work to put it on paper?
Pitman's work has been adapted to all languages. Isaac Pitman says of his work: "A
Vigorous propaganda and low-cost methods have contributed to giving it this distinction, yes
well, its merits over the other systems have been appreciated by the public. My little
method has been sold for a penny, and from my book Phonographic Teacher even more have been sold
of one million six hundred thousand copies." In their system, the consonants form pairs.
represented by the same stroke, which differ by thickness. Represents the vowels
with points, commas, and thin and thick hyphens. The placement of the consonants, in the
Line, above or below it, indicates the vowel that accompanies them. It calls phraseology to the union
of two or more words without lifting the pencil. The consonants R and L that follow the
base consonant of the syllable represented by a modification at the beginning of it. The
Manual Pitman's Shorthand-Phonography - New Era Edition contains a total of 189
rules.

The biography of Pitman was written in 1902 by his brother Benn and in 1908 by Alfred.
Baker.

The maximum speed reached is 350 words per minute (for two minutes), for
Nathan Behrin in 1922 (according to the Guinness Book of Records).