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 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:39 am
I'm in a class this semester that is more like skill teaching at the moment than actual knowledge. We learn about time management, study skills, etc. in the class. I was thumbing through my printouts of the teachers and I found the section on note taking. I'm a horrible note taker, so I decided to read on. Her notes glorified shorthand for note taking. I use some short hand like @ and w/o, but she took it a step further. These are her examples of short hand for notes: Hvg a sys 4 wrtg fst wll brg gd rslts
Th tst cms whn u hv 2 rd wht u wrt!
If u c rd th ur gd I can understand most of it, but I can't figure out what the "th" stands for in the third line. As to my personal way of taking notes, I type on a computer, print out lecture notes, or take regular non-shorthand notes as the teacher writes on the board. The only time I write like the above sentences is when I'm falling asleep in class. Draw from this whole rant like post what you will.
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:13 am
O_O My poor heart. The founders of good education must be tossing in their graves. Who on Earth would allow such a thing to be taught in schools!? What a particularly painful blow to society.
Also, "th" in the last line is shorthand *snorts* for "then."
*shudder*
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:31 am
I like my own personal translation for the last line:
If you can read this, you're God.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:09 am
Crap. If you can't take notes fast, learn to write faster. Skipping two letters out of a three-letter word will only make it hard to read later.
I couldn't read a single goddamned thing. That's not shorthand, that's an abomination.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:58 pm
...Deliver me from all of this sadness... Niccea Majeare's translation made me LOL. -Chiri Kcrinh Please DON'T send me random friend requests if I don't know you. ...Deliver me from all of this madness...
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:37 pm
I have my own system of shorthand, but it looks like this: Quote: - A chem reaction is diff. from a phys. prop. in that...(and so on) As you can tell, it's not very shorthand...but it's readable. Oh well.
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:07 am
Actually the closest I get to this type of short hand is
sq. rt. Square Root. That is the only time I do drastic abbreviations.
-sigh- Oh well. I don't know if was my teacher or the teacher who made the lecture notes that did this. I hope it was the one who made the lecture notes, because I respect my teacher.
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:21 pm
The only shorthand I use:
w/ = with.
Of course I write really fast and my writing so closely resembles chicken scratching it is nigh unreadable to anyone save for me.
It's not like anyone else is going to read my school notes, so it shouldn't matter if I'm the only one who is capable of doing so.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:40 pm
Niccea Majeare I'm in a class this semester that is more like skill teaching at the moment than actual knowledge. We learn about time management, study skills, etc. in the class. I was thumbing through my printouts of the teachers and I found the section on note taking. I'm a horrible note taker, so I decided to read on. Her notes glorified shorthand for note taking. I use some short hand like @ and w/o, but she took it a step further. These are her examples of short hand for notes: Hvg a sys 4 wrtg fst wll brg gd rslts
Th tst cms whn u hv 2 rd wht u wrt!
If u c rd th ur gd I can understand most of it, but I can't figure out what the "th" stands for in the third line. As to my personal way of taking notes, I type on a computer, print out lecture notes, or take regular non-shorthand notes as the teacher writes on the board. The only time I write like the above sentences is when I'm falling asleep in class. Draw from this whole rant like post what you will. That "th" in the third like...I think it's "this". She was trying to say, "If you can read this, you're good"...I think. ._.;;
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:34 pm
Is it sad I could read everything? It hurt a lot to get that far though. Ouch, my poor head.
I use very little short hand, and what I do use is fairly common abbreviations for various words. For instance, Continued=cont'd and abbreviation=abbrv, or something similar.
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Friendly Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:01 pm
Excuse me for the cussing but What the hell does that say?
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:40 pm
Hmm... Original Hvg a sys 4 wrtg fst wll brg gd rslts
Th tst cms whn u hv 2 rd wht u wrt!
If u c rd th ur gd Translation
Having a system for writing fast will bring good results
The test comes when you have two read what you wrote!
If you (could/can) read(,) (then/this,) you're (good/God)
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:50 pm
Niccea Majeare I like my own personal translation for the last line: If you can read this, you're God. Quote: * Hvg a sys 4 wrtg fst wll brg gd rslts * Th tst cms whn u hv 2 rd wht u wrt! * If u c rd th ur gd Translation engage. "Having a system for writing fast will bring good results." "The text comes when you have to read what you write." "If you can read this, you're good." And no, I'm not God, Jehovah, or whatchumacallit. I'm just Natsuri. stare
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:56 pm
The shorthand I use when I'm actually writing is w/... Sometimes I'll write @ for at. That's all I can think of for now. I don't know if they've change shorthand in the last few decades or so, but I do know that it's been around a while.
That reminds me a little bit of what I heard about from my debate friends in high school. I used to be in speech and debate and I only did speeches. My friends did debate, and they'd basically have to handle debates on current events and stuff. There was a certain thing, I forget what they called it, when a person tried to get out as much information as possible, so he/she would read really fast. The opposing team needed to listen and take notes for rebuttal, and so they had to abbreviate things...I guess it would be considered shorthand... But in a situation like that, writing out every word could really cost your team. confused
Other than for fast-paced work environments, I don't particularly see the need.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:19 am
This is a prime example of why everyone should just take notes in Tolken Elvish like me! That way when your friends steal them because they're too lazy to do thier own work, they get NOTHING! Muahahaha! blaugh
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