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Shorthand revision
Now back up to exercise 75 out of the first hundred in my 1913 shorthand book (which I plan to try to work through again to the end in the hopes that this will enable me to read my newly-acquired "Around the World in Eighty Days" in "Twentieth Century", i.e. 1900s, shorthand). I seem to remember that I never really got the hanging of 'doubling' strokes in the first place and am hence making heavy weather of it.
After that (should I manage the Jules Verne and should I have any motivation left) I vaguely plan to ignore the second half of the volume and instead work through the "New Era" edition of the same manual, which appears to contain completely new exercises (to which, alas, I have no key -- and as there have been so many editions of it, very little chance of acquiring the right one: I had no idea how fortunate I was in that the Centenary Edition only exists in a single edition, thus I happened to purchase the correct key!)
The explanations in the 'New Era' system appear clearer, or at least simpler to understand, and this is the version in which most reading material is available: however, a number of the more obscure usages appear to have been dropped in this later version, along with some of the abbreviations -- and I may actually need to know these in order to read the early text.
After that, I can concentrate on the easier-to-memorise rules...
After that (should I manage the Jules Verne and should I have any motivation left) I vaguely plan to ignore the second half of the volume and instead work through the "New Era" edition of the same manual, which appears to contain completely new exercises (to which, alas, I have no key -- and as there have been so many editions of it, very little chance of acquiring the right one: I had no idea how fortunate I was in that the Centenary Edition only exists in a single edition, thus I happened to purchase the correct key!)
The explanations in the 'New Era' system appear clearer, or at least simpler to understand, and this is the version in which most reading material is available: however, a number of the more obscure usages appear to have been dropped in this later version, along with some of the abbreviations -- and I may actually need to know these in order to read the early text.
After that, I can concentrate on the easier-to-memorise rules...